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French ship discovers 1 million new species in world's oceans
Updated On: 26 September, 2012 02:50 PM IST | | Agencies
A French research ship has found one million new species, mainly plankton, and the world's longest animal - a siphonophore which can extend for up to 150 feet, lurking in the world's oceans
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The Tara ship crossed the Atlantic, Pacific, Southern and Indian oceans on a 112,654 kilometres journey and while previously scientists thought there were fewer than 500,000 species of plankton, the expedition revealed 1.5 million.u00a0
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The underwater creatures will be revealed at London's Science Museum by scientist Chris Bowler who spent three years aboard the ship, the Daily Express reported.u00a0
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The new species include what looks like brightly coloured sea centipedes, ghostly fish, technicolour squid and siphonophores.u00a0
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Crew members of French ship Tara. Photo: AFP
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