Sunday, October 31, 2010

Census of the seas

The Census of Marine Life has issued its final report on the 10-year effort to document the diversity of the world's oceans. More than 2,700 scientists cataloged 28 million observations of new species as well as old favorites such as the octopus. This octopus specimen was collected at Lizard Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an Autonomous Reef Monitoring System, or ARMS, at a depth of 30 to 36 feet (10 to 12 meters). The ARMS system is one of the legacies of the census.

From :http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39473500/ns/technology_and_science-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1&GT1=43001

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