S’pore plays a role in deep sea exploration to understand marine biodiversity
The Straits Times - Singapore·2024-04-15 06:01
SINGAPORE – As countries around the world venture into the unknown of the deep sea, Singapore scientists too are embarking on similar expeditions to better understand South-east Asian waters.
In 2018, researchers from Singapore and Indonesia embarked on a pioneering expedition to Indonesia’s seas off West Java, where they uncovered some 800 species from more than 200 families of sponges, jellyfish, molluscs, starfish, urchins, worms, crabs, prawns and fish, accounting for more than 12,000 individual animals.
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Good luck 0716 15/04/2024
31 researchers hve been team up from both countries sailed from Jakarta to the Sunda Strait, and from there, to waters off the Indonesian port of Cilacap, in the south-western part of Java.
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DamianLovesMusic 16/04/2024
In my opinion , given the type of marine offshore creates that we are kept to see, its amazing how one wonders about he different type of species out there today.
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