Scientists Find 178 New Species in Oceans
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Marine scientists say they have discovered 178 new species of fish and hundreds more new species of plants and other animals in the past year, raising the number of life-forms found in the world's oceans to about 230,000.
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Seasat 1 gives oceanographers their first in-depth look across the world's broad ocean environment.
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Many more species are probably yet to be found in pristine jungle in Indonesia's Papua province, where two mammals believed to be new to science were discovered in June, an Indonesian zoologist and a conservationist said.
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Several crabs, shrimp, sea stars, and other marine species had likely never been seen until scientists went exploring in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this fall.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown to science, have been found at the deepest point in the world's oceans, almost 11km down.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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OSLO: Scientists said yesterday they found two types of shark, exotic "flasher" fish and corals among 52 new species in seas off Indonesia, confirming the western Pacific as the richest marine habitat on earth.
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The number of threatened species on the planet is increasing at unprecedented rates across almost all major animal groups, according to the most comprehensive evaluation of the worldâs biodiversity ever undertaken.
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By Milius, Susan  2,000 ocean scientists do the biggest, wettest census ever  Researchers have taken clam digging to new extremes.
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At least 7 and perhaps as many as 16 new planets have been found at the heart of the galaxy, leading astronomers to conclude that "there are literally billions of planets" in the Milky Way.
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Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.
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More than 60 nations started the biggest scientific investigation of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday amid new evidence that global warming is thawing polar ice and raising sea levels.
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Shark that "walk" with their fins across coral reefs are among more than 50 new species discovered recently off the coast of Indonesia, scientists announce.
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By Steve Connor  The first detailed survey of the microbial "zoo" living on the human body has found far more species than expected - and a significant proportion are new to science.
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Colonies of tiny, soft-bodied animals thrive in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean, Japanese researchers reported on Thursday.