Hunt seeks unique Arctic sealife MarineBio Marine Life Directory

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June, 2004 - An international scientific team is to record and list the species thought to live deep in the Arctic Ocean's chill.

One very deep area they will search, undisturbed for millennia, is said to contain the Earth's oldest seawater.

The team, based at the University of Alaska, US, believes it is likely to find species never recorded before, and some commoner lifeforms in abundance.

It says its task is now urgent because the onset of climate change requires very good baseline data on marine life.

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