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Scientists announce major global collaboration to create online ‘macroscopic observatory’ of Earth’s biodiversity

Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Encyclopedia of Life Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Natural History Museum, London 31-May-2009 Biodiversity information, innovative internet architecture being fused

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Ocean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of ‘natural’ animal sizes, abundance

Census of Marine Life Washington DC 24-May-2009 Census of Marine Life historians reconstruct images of past sea life that boggle today’s imagination Before oil hunters

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Census of Marine Life explorers find hundreds of identical species thrive in both Arctic, Antarctic

Census of Marine Life Washington DC 15-Feb-2009 Earth’s unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census

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Scientists Report Major Steps Towards 1st Census of Marine Life

Census of Marine Life Washington DC 9-Nov-2008 Among report’s revelations: Antarctic ancestry of many octopus species, behemoth bacteria, colossal sea stars, mammoth mollusks, more In

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Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs

Census of Marine Life Washington D.C. 18-Sep-2008 Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the

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Students Use DNA Barcodes to Unmask “Mislabeled” Fish at Grocery Stores, Restaurants

Rockefeller University / Trinity School New York 22-Aug-08 Two New York City high school friends, curious about new DNA barcoding technology, discovered that fish at

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Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010

Census of Marine Life Washington D.C. 25-Jun-2008 World Register of Marine Species inaugurated with first 122,500 validated names; over 56,000 aliases for ocean species identified

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Marine explorers marvel at ‘Brittlestar City’ on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica

Census of Marine Life Washington DC 18-May-2008 Millions of starfish-like creatures catch passing food in 4 km/h current; cod shelter from ‘rattling’ current in folds

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Scientists to explore life’s mysteries through encyclopedic ‘macroscope’

Encyclopoedia of Life / Smithsonian Institution   The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled today (Feb. 27) at the prestigious

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Marine scientists warn human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system

Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, Plymouth, UK, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 25-Nov-2007 Speedy diagnosis of the temper and

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Amid spiralling government interest, world’s top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei

Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 14-Sep-2007 Major advances foreseen in health, consumer and environment protection, more About 350 DNA barcoding experts from

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Tuna Past and Present

Census of Marine Life, Washington DC 5-Aug-2007 Historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe; Tagging reveals migration, breeding secrets of declining population

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Creating a Window on ‘Oceans in Motion’: Academic, Science, Engineering Experts Illuminating Sea Life Conditions, Migrations

26 June 06 Dalhousie University Ocean Tracking Network Ron O'Dor Scientists and resource managers could soon have a highly detailed picture of marine conditions and

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Diverse sea ‘bugs’ revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton

May 4, 2006 Census of Marine Life Zooplankton DNA Sequenced at Sea; scientists census tiny species with starring role in food chain, world climate Census

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Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves

25-Feb-2007 Census of Marine Life Deep-sea species at unusually shallow depths on uncapped seabed (photo (c) Julian Gutt, AWI) Once roofed by ice for millennia,

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Potential new bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies

Rockefeller University / University of Guelph 18-Feb-2007 Scientists complete DNA portrait of US, Canadian bird species, Guyanese bats At unprecedented levels of difficulty involving highly

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Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census; Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census experts

Census of Marine Life 10-Dec-2006 A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the Census

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End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

13-Nov-2006 University of Helsinki / Rockefeller University, New York ‘Growing stock’ expanding in most forested nations, even with modest prosperity An increasing number of countries

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Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria

31 July 2006 Census of Marine Life A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions

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‘Fish with chips’ reporting from ocean among highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point

14 Dec 05 Census of Marine Life A physconect siphonophore, Marrus sp., photographed during NOAA’s Arctic “Hidden Ocean” expedition in support of the Census of

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Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

23 Oct 05 Census of Marine Life Seafood prices collected from U.S. restaurant menus dating to the 1850s will help plot the shifting harvest of

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Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

29 Jul 05 Census of Marine Life A historic expedition of Census of Marine Life explorers to the planet’s most northern reaches has revealed a

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