FRANCE: According to an international audit of the seas, 1,451 new species have been discovered by scientists in our oceans during the last year alone.
It has been informed that the marine creatures include microscopic shrimp from coastal caves, strange and amazing beasts from the deepest, darkest oceans and even two new types of dolphin. In the seas off South Africa, scientists discovered the ‘star-gazer’ shrimp with striped eyes fixed on top of its tiny red body.
Two new species of dolphin have been identified by biologists in 2014. One dolphin was discovered near Papua New Guinea and the other in a Brazilian river. The biologists told that they both were threatened by fishermen. Marine explorers off the coast of Australia found the venomous ‘Keesingia gigas’ jellyfish in 2014.
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) wants to become an inventory of all known ocean life. WoRMS aims to make a master list of all organisms that have been observed and described in the world oceans. WoRMS numbers 228,000 species. The task is almost completed and the researchers have entered all the historical data in the database.
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