Marine biologists with the Census of Marine Life (CML) initiative announce that expeditions carried out in Antarctica in order to assess the level of biodiversity there have stumbled upon an unexpected number of new species.For most people, the South Pole is barren and icy desert, on which only a handful of species c... |
9 October 2010
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For the last ten years or so, a large international group of researchers, featuring marine biologists, oceanographers and so on, has been involved in one of the largest reviews ever. The goal of the investigation is to produce new scientific data to explain things such as the diversity of marine species, their distri... |
19 February 2010
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Scientists have known for a very long time that there are literally thousands of species of unknown creatures living in the ocean, at impressive depths, without having ever seen the light of day. In a new set of investigations, carried out for the Census of Marine Life initiative, scientists have found no less than 1... |
23 November 2009
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