Counting sea creatures.
It is believed that only 5% of the world's oceans have been explored so far, but new technologies are opening up new areas of the underwater world Underwater World may refer to: - Underwater World, Singapore
- UnderWater World, Queensland
- UnderWater World, Guam
- Underwater World, Nanjing
- Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World
- The Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA), formerly Underwater World, Perth.
every day. In November November: see month. scientists announced they had discovered 106 new species of fish in 2004 alone as part of the 10-year Census of Marine Life Census of Marine Life, an international program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of living organisms in the oceans. A 10-year project involving scientists in more than 70 nations, the census began in 2001 and is directed by an , begun in 2000. More than 1,000 scientists from 70 countries are taking part in the census census, periodic official count of the number of persons and their condition and of the resources of a country. In ancient times, among the Jews and Romans, such enumeration was mainly for taxation and conscription purposes. . Facilitating the exchange of this new information is a publicly accessible database (http://www.iobis.org/). The census database has more than 5.2 million records mapping the distribution of 38,000 marine species, a significant increase from the 1.1 million records of 25,000 species last year. To date about 230,000 marine species have been described by scientists. Census members believe the actual number of species may be 10 times that.
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