Showing posts with label marine biodiversity survey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marine biodiversity survey. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Marine study in Singapore digs up 100 species

Burrowed deep into the mudflats of Lim Chu Kang is a bumpy, warty sea anemone so new to science, it does not even have a scientific name yet.
Its finders have fondly nicknamed it Bill.
It is one of the new findings scientists have made, just a year into the most comprehensive study of marine life here.
In the first phase of the three-year Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey, researchers looking at coastal mudflat and intertidal areas have already found a hundred species, some of which are new for Singapore or new to science altogether.