Census of seas reveals amazing forms of life

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Just saw this article on CNN.com that talks about a bunch of new interesting marine species.

Census of seas reveals amazing forms of life:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/10/marine.census.ap/index.html

Story Highlights
• Type of shrimp thought to have gone extinct 50 million years ago discovered
• Off New Jersey, 20 million fish are found swarming in school the size of Manhattan
• Thousands of new species have been discovered during the census
• About 2,000 researchers from 80 countries participating in the census
 

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