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Ocean Census Surprises Scientists

Effort to chart all undersea life by 2010 finds 5K new species

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 10, 2008 10:32 AM CST

(Newser) – Somewhere under the Antarctic Ocean, brittle starfish completely cover a submerged mountain. In the Pacific, sharks congregate in a region with few food sources but plenty of opportunity for romance. Those facts, along with an accounting of more than 5,000 newly discovered species, are...   Read full story »

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