Deep-sea researchers uncover several new species and thousands of fossilized coral samples
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 14:49
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that not only netted coral-reef samples likely to provide insight into the impact of climate change on the world's oceans, but also brought to light at least three never-before-seen species of sea life.