New creatures found off Great Barrier Reef

If you ever saw the movie "The Abyss," then you might be familiar with the type of brightly colored creatures found deep in the ocean.
But this time it's not a movie and the the hundreds of new marine creatures found in three reefs of Australia are a lot smaller, in fact some are the size of sand grains, according to scientists.
The new discovery led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, also uncovered 150 soft corals, never seen before shrimps, worms and crustaceans.
Here is a story published in National Geographic Magazine.
The exploration is part of a 10-year project to look at the world's ocean diversity, involving systematic sampling hidden reef animals at Lizard and heron Islands on the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef on the country's west coast.
In total, about a hundred new isopod species could emerge from the study.
Other finds include a potentially new class of marine worm known as bristle worms, relatives of leeches and earthworms.
The team is also analyzing organisms such as seaweeds, urchins, and lace corals.
Corals depend on a symbiotic relationship with temperature-sensitive algae that live inside their tissues and provide both food and color.