Census brings to life 'extinct' marine species
By Pat Reber | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-14 07:57
Scientists thought it had been extinct for 50 million years.
But as thousands of marine experts combed the world's oceans taking a decade-long Census of Marine Life, they found a pink Jurassic shrimp in the waters off Australia.
In the Caribbean, they discovered a living fossil - a type of deep-water clam that flourished for 100 million years, then seemed to have disappeared in the 1800s.
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