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Quote: | Originally Posted by John Gulliver Quote bo.1: Only a tenth of a per cent of the ocean has been sampled, a fraction that falls to a thousandth of a per cent for the deep sea.
Quote no.2: In just three cubic meters of a coral reef off New Caledonia in the South Pacific, some 130,000 molluscs were found belonging to 3,000 species.
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Makes you feel quite humble, doesn't it? |
Yes mate - and rightly so! Nice to know that there is still some mystery in our lives 
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