Marine biodiversity: how many species actually live in the ocean?

Biodiversity.   By reading this word you probably picture luxuriant tropical forests abundant with birds, ferns, insects, mammals and streaming water. Or on a more negative note, you may think of species extinction given the overwhelming quantity of news on this topic. In any case, I doubt the ocean comes first in your representation of […]

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