Most Ocean Species Remain Undiscovered

Yahoo ^ | 11/15/12 | Tia Ghose | LiveScience.com

[NormsRevenge]

Maybe they need a new agent.. start a blog,, come out of their shell more.. yaknow

btw, They're up to 26,000 species so far..

[NormsRevenge]

Just watch out for your toes.. :-}

Gallery: Creatures from the Census of Marine Life

Marine VenusCredit: I. MacDonald.
This Venus fly-trap anemone, living 4,920 feet (1500 meters) below the surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico, is only one among thousands of photogenic species cataloged by the decade-long Census of Marine Life, which is drawing to a close this fall.

[Paladin2]

W’s Fault.

[Paladin2]

DNA is your friend.

[Beowulf9]

[Revolting cat!]

Indeed! Maybe it's because the scientists are not paying attention?

[First_Salute]

“Most Ocean Species Remain Undiscovered”

Reminds me of your survival theory.

[shibumi]

If they are undiscovered, how do they know how many of them there are?

[Popman]

Wow.....we need to spend a few hundred billion dollars to make sure no underwater sea creature is undocumented and therefore disenfranchised....by being nameless...

It’s bad for their self esteem ....imagine .... Floating around the vast ocean with no name....

It’s species discrimination ...

[wny]

How could this possibly be known? If its undiscovered, you can’t know it’s undiscovered. Maybe everything’s been discovered. Or maybe there’s only 3 more species left undiscovered. This is called a wild a$$ guess.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

[Salamander]

They can tell they’re down there by the amount of traffic on the underwater proxy servers but they can’t actually identify them individually.

[you got a better answer?]...:-P

And why are crawfish called crawfish when they’re not fish at all?

[Procyon]

And how may undiscovered plants and animals are endangered species? Maybe we should declare all the oceans off-limits to human activity to protect the unknown!

[Salamander]

They know there’s undiscovered things because they haven’t discovered them yet.

[I used Occam’s chainsaw for this post]

[shibumi]

I’ve been wondering about that too.

Kinda sticks in your craw, don’t it?

[shibumi]

And if there are crawdaddies, are there also crawmommies?

What happens when they break up - or die? Crawidowes?

Are there little crawkiddies?

[TurboZamboni]

They refused the how many toilets question in the census.

[shibumi]

Makes sensus to me.

[Osage Orange]

Ha!!

[Fledermaus]

Thank you!