Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

Sharks, lobsters, corals, and deep-sea sponges are just some of the 866 new marine species recently identified in the largest global effort to accelerate ocean discovery.

Found by divers, piloted submersibles and remotely operated vehicles during 10 ocean expeditions, the species have all been deemed new to science, according to Ocean Census, a global alliance to ...

Ocean Census has embarked on numerous expeditions—so far—with a sole aim: discovering new species in the "world's greatest ...

Over 800 marine species have recently been discovered including a guitar-shaped shark off the coast of Mozambique. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks to marine biologist, Lucy Woodall.

Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ask its citizens to take part in a similar endeavour, the Census 2000. The US Constitution calls for a count of the nation's populace ...

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