Bermuda was mentioned in a daily UK newspaper after new forms of marine life were discovered three miles below the surface of its infamous ?Triangle?.

The Telegraph article did not state exactly where in the nearly half-million square-mile area of ocean ? roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the southernmost tip of Florida ? the scientific breakthroughs were made.

However, it mentioned that the US-based, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provided a research vessel.

?Reading their genetic codes on a rolling sea, scientists carrying out a census of marine life have revealed new details about the role of these fragile creatures in the climate and food chain, from fish to whales,? Roger Highfield of the Telegraph wrote on Friday.

?Among the thousands captured, 500 species have been catalogued and 220 of them have had their DNA sequences analysed on board the NOAA ship to reveal up to 20 new species.?

The NOAA ship identified over 1,000 individual species during a 20-day cruise that ended on April 30, it said, including several never before seen species.

The cruise?s scientific leader, Dr. Peter Wiebe of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts was quoted saying he captured hundreds of species of tiny shrimps ? copepods ? that help feed world fish stocks.

It also said he studied 24 of the world?s 48 species of swimming snails and yielded new understanding of the diversity of gelatinous plankton.

?Also captured were more than 120 fish species, including rare male anglerfishes, which use their jaws and teeth to attach themselves, like parasites, to the much larger females,? the article said. ?They also found possible new species of black dragonfish, and what may be a new fish known as ?the great swallower?.?