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600 New Species of Fish Discovered

Posted by Hemos on from the cataloguing-it-all dept.

zenobr writes "Some 300 scientists from 53 countries are creating a record of all known marine life, in a project reminiscent of an aquatic Domesday Book. So far more than 15,000 species of fish have been catalogued and 2 to 3 thousand more are expected to be catalogued before the project's end in 2010. Over 500 of the fish catalogued thus far are thought to be new to science. Full story on BBC News"

13 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What happened here? Does FP here count?

  2. waste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You trolls wasted it. You might have been able to get both first, AND last post...in the same post. Thats a first.

  3. HELLO...ello ...ello....llo .....o by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ANYBODY THERE

    body there...here....there...there...ere.....re.

    wow it's so empty in here i can hear my own echo

  4. What a waste... by sh()gun · · Score: -1, Troll

    Think of the research man-hours used to do this project, for nothing more than 'bookeeping' in the fuzzy bunny sector of biology.

    Think what advances could have come from that time spent on some real sciences....

    --
    -The more you learn, the more things you realize you don't know-
  5. "New" species? by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many are just "old" species with an extra stripe or dot?

    Sometimes it seems like taxonomists get a little carried away with their differentiating.

    A guppy is a guppy is a guppy.

  6. THERE'S ALWYAS A FISH SOME FISH SOME FISH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    THERE'S ALWAYS A FISH TO ~FUCK!~

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!

  7. Re:why is this story empty! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi, has anyone seen Mr. Dick Wang?

  8. Anyone have an ascii penis fish??! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    If so, now's the time to p0st that bad boy!

  9. penis fish (angel fish style) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    8==/===D

    penis.bird.rotten.com

  10. Re:They wanted to do this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fish are mammals, mammals don't have scales you idiot they have fur. You are thinking of dolphins.

  11. So? by a_nimble_bahai · · Score: -1, Troll

    This has to be the most useless story ever.

  12. BEAM ME UP YOU NIGGER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    unless you want to get your nuts smacked

  13. where's waldo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey, can you spot the fish in this picture?