Great Barrier Reef

[miskairal]

I came across this at Australia's news.com.au just now. Wish they'd
given more details :(

<quote>
New marine species found in reef survey

Several new species of fish, plants and at least one new species of crab
have been discovered in a big new survey of the Great Barrier Reef.

Dr Roland Pitcher from the CSIRO says scientists spent more than 300
days at sea covering 536,000 square kilometres of the reef from Cape
York to Fraser Island.

"We've seen a number of new fish, possibly a new pipehorse and maybe a
new species of crab at least," he said.

"And we can also confirm that there's been a number of species that have
been confirmed in Australia waters for the first time.

"We were fairly confident that we would find quite a number of new
things because a lot of the kinds of animal groups that we are
collecting specimens of from the seabed haven't really been studied
extensively before."
<endquote>

[Billy]

"miskairal" > wrote in
message u...
>I came across this at Australia's news.com.au just now. Wish they'd
>given more details :(
>


Cool, but not surprising! With global temperature patterns changing,
the reefs are changing too. Some fear for the reefs, thinking they're
going to shrivel up into a sub-surface wasteland. My opinion is based
more on the planet's ability to absorb change, and change WITH the
changes. The reefs are changing, and for those of us interested, it's
going to be interesting, indeed.

b