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Oceans could contain 750,000 undiscovered species
ManuDate: Sunday, 10-October-2010, 4:54 AM | Message # 1
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Epimeria georgiana Photo: Census of Marine Life

Giant sea spiders the size of dinner plates. Wriggly creatures nicknamed "Squidworms" because of their strange-looking tentacles. A blind lobster whose Latin name means "terrible claw".

These are among the new types of animal discovered in the most ambitious-ever survey of the world's oceans, which concludes tomorrow with the publication of the first Census of Marine Life.

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Full article/source - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth....es.html

 
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