Alright, so Matt, do you ever just kind of sit and wonder like just how big the ocean is or you know you think about space and the galaxy and what all might actually be out there?

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Hello and welcome to life's little mysteries with live science. I'm Gina Breiner, editor and chief of life science.

And I'm Mindy Weissberger, a senior writer at life science. The world can be a pretty mysterious place and we at life science love to ask and answer questions about mysteries big and small, about ancient civilizations, our planet and solar system, the plants and animals that live alongside us, our bodies and how they work.

And technologies that we use every day in today's episode of life's little mysteries will take a closer look at one of the most mysterious environments on our planet, the ocean.

So what makes the ocean so mysterious?

Well, there's a lot of it. It covers the ocean covers 70% of earth. The average depth is about 12,000 feet, but the deepest part, which is challenger deep in the western Pacific Ocean in the Mariana trench, is 36,200 feet deep.

So there's a lot of ocean and and according to Noah's 95% of the ocean is unexplored and about 91% of all the species that live in the ocean are still to be classified.

And the oceans are important. Actually life on earth began in the oceans, all complex forms of terrestrial life that live only and now, including us, originated in the oceans and involved over hundreds of millions of years.

So on top of all the species that have lived in the oceans and are now extinct and the species that live in the oceans now that we don't even know about, all of life on land.

Again, life that is life that is around now and life that is no longer around everything came from the oceans. That was a starting point for all life on earth.

Which is interesting because conditions in the ocean can be quite extreme.

Yes, so this is another of the big mysteries about the ocean is that there are parts of the ocean where the conditions there are just so extreme that it seems like no life could survive there at all.

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