No Apparent End to Oceanic Revelations, Researchers Find

Animals seem to have found a way to make a living just about everywhere," said Jesse Ausubel of the Sloan Foundation, discussing the findings of year six of the census of marine life.

Added Ron O'Dor, a senior scientist with the census: "We can't find anyplace where we can't find anything new."

This year's update, released Sunday, is part of a study of life in the oceans that is scheduled for final publication in 2010. The census is an international effort supported by governments, divisions of the United Nations and private conservation organizations. About 2,000 researchers from 80 countries are participating.

Ausubel said there are nearly 16,000 known species of marine fish and 70,000 kinds of marine mammals. A couple of thousand have been discovered during the census.

Alive and well, in the Coral Sea, the type of shrimp called "Neoglyphea neocaledonica," thought to have disappeared millions of years ago (extinct). Researchers nicknamed it the "Jurassic shrimp."

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New finds and gained acknowledge is a fantastic thing. The findings of creature previously thought extinct always reminds me of other creatures like the celalcanth and the the tale of evolution biology.

Years past, extinct fossil creature like the Cealacanth fish served two purposes. 1 they were used to give form to the latest evolutionary scheme. 2 they were presented as a 'transitional' 3. they gave weight to the dating method of the day.

When the Celaocnath and other creatures are found alive and well what does one think might happen? Well it is counter intuitive but all it does is give weight to the self correcting aspect of the scientific method and does nothing at all to the theory of evolution.

Events and logic such as this creates conundrums for those not steeped into the ideology of evolutionary biology for when each new discovery is found it is hailed as the next be all and end all, the missing link that glues the entire concept beyond a shadow of doubt.

Since 100% of evolutionary biologists adopt complete all parts of evolutionary biology perhaps it is only those that believe all parts of it to begin with are drawn into the field. For it seems an area of academia/career that requires one to suspend all critical analysis to anything that might disrupt it.

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