Photograph: British Antarctic SurveyFrom The Guardian:
The Census of Marine Life is finally complete after a decade of work by 2,700 scientists from 80 countries.
It is the culmination of a decade of work by 2,700 scientists from 80 countries, who went on more than 540 expeditions into the farthest reaches of the most mysterious realm on the planet – the world's oceans.
Today, the US$650m Census of Marine Life (COML) project announced the culmination of its work, concluding that the deep is home to more than a million species – of which less than a quarter are described in the scientific literature.
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