It’s Fun to Know: Life in the Ocean

A worldwide team of marine biologists and other scientists are developing a comprehensive online database of all the species that live in the world’s oceans. The World Register of Marine Species, found at marinespecies.org, is free and available to the public. It currently lists more than 100,000 verified individual marine plants and animals, and more species are added to the list daily.

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