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• Census of Marine Life

  
  Zooillogix — Authority: 117
  Surely, youve heard about the Census of Marine Life , a 10 year long effort to "assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life." You may have wondered why it took until 2000 to launch such a project, or why you didnt think to do it first. This epic venture (which weve posted about ...
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• California Golden Gorgonian, Muricea californica

  
  Phillip Colla Photography — Authority: 115
  The California golden gorgonian ( Muricea californica ) is a common gorgonian species in southern California. It is typically found growing on rocky reefs from 40′ to 200′ deep. The California golden gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of individual polyps, each of which secretes calcium ...
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• The cautionary tale of The Whale | SE Smith

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The killing of a blue whale by a research vessel off the Californian coast raises larger questions about marine protection Fort Bragg , with a population of 7,000, is a ragged former timber town on the northern reaches of the California coast. It is in some ways the epitome of idealised small town America: the kind ...
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• Hammerhead sharks see the world in glorious 3D, sight tests reveal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The wing-like heads of hammerhead sharks with their widely spaced eyes give the creatures excellent binocular vision, scientists have found The bizarre appearance of hammerhead sharks has led generations of marine biologists to ponder the same question: why the wide face? Part of the answer may now be at hand. Eye ...
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• Country diary: Northumberland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Northumberland This month is the main breeding period in the year for the grey seal colony on our north-east coast, and with 4,000 currently reported here it is the largest habitat suited to these seals in England. Hundreds of seal pups are born on the Farne Islands, although the mortality rate can be very high for ...
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• Piglet Squid, Football Octopod, Other Bizarre Underwater Species Found

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 139
  Be amazed! Deep within the dark ocean depths are bizarre and odd-shaped deep-sea creatures that were discovered during the ten-year Census of Marine Life, which ends in 2010. This is what they found. Video Courtesy: Census of Marine Life Piglet Squid Helmet Jelly Sea Angel Football Octopod Jewel Squid ...
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• Census of Marine Life Project Releases Preliminary Results

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 134
  Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) from East Timor. Photo credit: Nick Hobgood/Wikipedia The Census of Marine Life , a network of researchers in 80 countries spanning 10 years, released preliminary results this week, although final results are not due until October 2010.  Results announced ...
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• Your Local Ocean Day

  
  Watamu Turtle Watch — Authority: 92
  We have had an exciting event this month, i collaboration with A Rocha Kenya and Turtle bay Beach Club we held our inaugural Local Ocean Day We had a total of over 250 school children and community groups who participated in the day’s events which included a beach cleanup, sand art sculpture competition and ...
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• From the Deep Sea

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 424
  A football octopod and a piglet squid are just a few of the bizarre deep-sea creatures uncovered during the ten-year Census of Marine Life, which ends in 2010. Video Courtesy: Census of Marine Life
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• Whales save seal from orcas

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Humpback takes seal under its flipper to cheat predators There are plenty of stories of cetaceans saving humans. Indeed, Jonah was rescued by a whale when he was thrown overboard, and there have been tales of dolphins assisting swimmers in distress or shielding them from circling sharks. Killer whales, however — ...
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• Census of Marine Life Discovers Thousands of New Species

  
  glassbox-design.com — Authority: 426
  This past Sunday the Census of Marine Life released a report  covering most of the 17,500 plus species that have been discovered living below 650 feet. In the wake of this release, scientists are demanding more exploration of the most uncharted areas of our planet. Some scientists believe more than one million ...
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• “Dumbo” and Other Deep-Sea Oddities Found

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 139
  Strange and bizarre deep-sea creatures from the ocean’s depths … take a look at oil-eating tubeworms and a 15-tentacled sea cucumber which are among the 5,000 deep-dwelling species identified by the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year effort to chronicle life in the deep ocean. “Dumbo,” Other Deep-Sea ...
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• Rethinking Light & Sound

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image by blprnt_van via Flickr The director of the Census of Marine Life on broadening the scope of global change to include illumination and noise. “ Son et lumiѐre ”—sound and light—may stir thoughts of a clamorous and brilliant display on a holiday evening, animating Versailles, the pyramids ...
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• Psalm 148:7 and the Census of Marine Life Image Gallery

  
  The Domain for Truth — Authority: 117
  Psalm 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths, Look at the Census of Marine Life Image Gallery: http://www.coml.org/imagegallery/ God’s beautiful creation below Posted in Bible, census of marine life, Christianity, ocean, psalm 148:7
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• Discovering New Life Three Thousand Meters Under the Sea

  
  Spirited Woman Blogger Team — Authority: 135
  There is the old saying that shining light in the dark brings new discoveries... and that holds true for the deep oceans as well as for our consciousness. We are coming up on Census year, 2010 is the Decennial Census , to count all of the population in the US. I was exploring on the internet this weekend and had ...
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• Life in the deep

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 591
  The latest update on a 10-year census of marine life reads like something Walt Disney or Dr. Seuss might imagine. The report describes some of the thousands of species that oceanographers now say live in the depths of the ocean. Scientists have found tentacled, transparent sea cucumbers, and tubeworms that feed on ...
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• Tentacled Transparent Sea Cucumbers!!!! Oh My!

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 619
  The Census of Marine Life’s latest report is a doozy. It includes ~5,600 new species in addition to the 230,000 already recorded. Scientists hope to increase the figure by thousands before the census is done in October 2010. In the tally, researchers have cataloged 17,650 species below a depth of 656 feet (where ...
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• In pictures: Bizarre deep-sea creatures revealed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Thousands of strange animals that exist in eternal darkness deep in the oceans have been catalogued for the first time
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• Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 493
  Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the biodiversity of the oceans. That program, the Census of Marine Life, started in 2000 with the goal “to advance a major ...
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• Video: New deep sea marine creatures revealed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Thousands of newly discovered creatures brought to light by a census of marine life survey, a 10-year study by thousands of scientists from more than 32 countries
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