Just finished reading this article in The Wall Street Journal about the world’s first “global marine census” and am feeling stoked about researchers’ findings. “[T]he golden age of oceanic discovery still lies ahead,” says writer Gautam Naik, reporting that scientists found more than 1,200 new species, as well as creatures thought to be extinct, including a shrimp that researchers previously believed had died off more than 50 million years ago.
Julie Schwietert
Julie Schwietert Collazo is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator currently in New York, formerly of Mexico City and San Juan. She is Matador's managing editor and is the lead faculty member of MatadorU's travel writing program.
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