Ocean Census researchers also located the guitar shark, which belongs to a genus known as Rhinobatos, off the coast of Mozambique and Tanzania. Its shape is distinctive, ...

The Ocean Census, the largest global effort of its kind, has reported the identification of 866 new species, highlighting the ...

“Ocean Census will create an immense wealth of openly accessible knowledge that will benefit and sustain all life on Earth, for humankind and our planet,” Sasakawa continues.

Ocean Census/NIWA Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.

"The ocean covers 71% of our planet, yet it is said that only around 10% of marine life has been discovered so far," Dr. Michelle Taylor, principal investigator for Ocean Census, said.

Ocean Census is full of dreams and wonder, and cannot be accomplished by the Nippon Foundation and Nekton alone.” The Ocean Census has set an ambitious goal of finding 100,000 new marine species ...

Researchers have embarked on an ambitious global initiative to discover and record marine life hidden in the world's oceans. Ocean Census aims to identify 100,000 unknown species in the next 10 ...

Ocean Census researchers also located the guitar shark, which belongs to a genus known as Rhinobatos, off the coast of Mozambique and Tanzania. Its shape is distinctive, ...