Ocean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of 'natural' animal sizes, abundance (page 2)
Using such diverse sources as old ship logs, literary texts, tax accounts, newly translated legal documents and even mounted trophies, Census of Marine Life researchers are piecing together images -- some flickering, others in high definition -- of fish of such sizes, abundance and distribution in ages past that they stagger modern imaginations. They are also documenting the timelines over which those giant marine life populations declined.
Ocean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of 'natural' animal sizes, abundance
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Sun 24 May 09 from e! Science News
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