Gallery: Marine Census Finds the Beautiful Wee Beasties of the Deep Sea

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By Andrew Moseman
Apr 20, 2010 1:58 AMNov 20, 2019 5:23 AM

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Kaleidoscopic. Delightfully odd. And too numerous to truly grasp. There are many more words one could deploy to describe the worlds unknown under the sea. An international group of scientists has been scouring them for life for the last decade, and later this year, on October 4, the Census of Marine Life will release it catalog of marine inhabitants. "The number could be astonishingly large, perhaps a million or more, if all small animals and protists are included," the organization says. Octopuses, jellyfish, and other sprawling sea creatures dominated the census' prior reports. But this time they've dived even deeper, surveying tiny life.

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