Life of the Ocean 500 species of sea creatures with relaxing music and ocean sounds

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03 Aug 2022

The oceans are endangered but teeming with life. That's right, an average of 4 new species are added to the huge book of marine life every day.The work was hard. Hundreds of researchers around the world write a chapter of this wonderful book every day. Thus, in just one cut, 1,451 species found last year were added.Over the past 8 years, more than 200 editors of that wonderful document have discovered that nearly half of the species named in the last 250 years are duplicates. And 190,400 names that were duplicates in one form or another were crossed out.A species of snail is repeated 119 times. The goal is to have a single, reliable record.After meticulously analyzing 419,000 species records and removing duplicates, more likely, scientists from the World Registry of Marine Species (WoRMS for its acronym in English), present-day can say that the seas of this planet They have found 228,450 species of all kinds.Among the new additions to marine life, the book features 122 sharks and rays, 131 new members of the goby family, and 1 new barracuda found in the famous waters of the Mediterranean Sea.And if filtering is essential for a well-written book, a fundamental concern arises about how many pages will be left to write. Experts believe there is much, much more than has been written.Of the known species, about 195,000 (86%) are marine animals, including 18,000 fish species described since the mid-1700s, more than 1,800 starfish, 816 squid, 93 whales and dolphins, and about 8,900 mussels and other molluscs. two shells.Since 2008, the average number of species found has been 10 species per month, an indication of all that is left known about the marine environment