Study: 'Astonishing richness' in polar species

Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 16:49 in Earth & Climate

The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science.

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