Hundreds Of New Species Discovered Off Tasmania
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 8th, 2008
Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation have discovered a rare species of stingray and 2,000-year-old corals along with 274 species new to science at two reserves in the Southern Ocean. The new species and huge underwater mountains have been found off the southern coast of Tasmania.
For more info, read here, look at more images there and also at the ones at the Times online.
The 123 newly found sea mounts are the “rainforests of the deep.”
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This is wonderful !
Of course, I still hope that an OLD species is rediscovered in Tasmania, too