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  • Ocean’s largest inhabitants under the radar…until now

    In the Field, News, Science | (1)

    In the past few weeks, two great findings have surfaced from recent ocean research. Two giant species – a shark and a whale – are giving up surprising secrets about their lives. CI’s Bryan Wallace reports: Multitudes of animal species continue to evade detection by science, mainly because they are really hard to find. Many are tiny, or well-hidden, or live in places that people have a hard time getting to (or escaping from). While roughly a couple of million species have been officially catalogued, perhaps tens (hundreds?) of millions of species remain undiscovered. So you would figure that we know ...