Antarctic peninsula marine life


	Antarctic peninsula marine life
balthazarus
12-2-2008 2:12 AM
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marines, biology
balthazarus says:
The first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals around the South Orkney islands off the tip of the Antarctic peninsula has revealed a region rich in biodiversity, with more species than the Galapagos
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regions' </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237400" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237400" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237400"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/9F89E57B-E537-4D24-9E45-5EC1CA1509A8" alt="Gallery Antarctic: Chinstrap penguin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237400">Five were new to science</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237398" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237398" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237398"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/AD5BA5BC-F4ED-4CC4-988C-25049EBA02AF" alt="Gallery Antarctic: Brachiopods Liothyrella uva" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/01/wildlife-poles-antarctica?picture=340237398">The animals recorded were checked against a century of literature and modern 
databases. The team concluded there are over 1,200 known marine and land 
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