article_snippet: The marine creatures include weird and wonderful beasts from the deepest, darkest oceans, microscopic shrimp from coastal caves and even two new types of dolphin.
article_snippet: And in 2014 biologists identified two new species of dolphin – one found near Papua New Guinea and the other in a Brazilian river – both of which are already threatened by fishermen.
article_snippet: Despite the expansion of our knowledge however, scientists estimate our still only know about a tenth of the marine life on Earth.
article_snippet: Over the last eight years since the project started, scientists have pored over records, examined historic journals, and poked and prodded the bodies of mysterious creatures of the deep.
article_snippet: After countless hours of research, scientists have found scientists know only a fraction of the fish, whales and sharks swimming around scientists shores, or the squid and shrimp found in the darkest reaches of scientists oceans.
article_snippet: Dr Jan Mees, of the Flanders Marine Institute in Belgium and co-chairman of the marine register programme, said: ‘It is humbling to realise that humankind has encountered and described only a fraction of our oceanic kin, perhaps as little as 11 per cent.
article_snippet: But Dr Jan Mees, of the Flanders Marine Institute in Belgium and co-chairman of the marine register programme added:
article_snippet: Sadly, we fear, many species will almost certainly disappear due to changing maritime conditions – especially warming, pollution and acidification – before we’ve had a chance to meet.
article_snippet: Without knowing what species are there, we have no way of knowing what is at risk.'
highlights_snippet: Creatures include beasts from the deep, microscopic shrimp and dolphins .
  
highlights_snippet: Marine explorers discovered  