About 1700 researchers in 73 countries are now halfway through the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year project which aims to catalogue the life in our oceans - from the tiniest microbes to the biggest whales. In the past year nearly 80 new species of fish have been discovered.
However, even with the [...]
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