Some 90 scientists and their assistants from the California Academy of Sciences just returned from an expedition to the Philippines where they collected animals for exhibits and discovered potentially 100 new species. The seven-week expedition was to the Verde Island Passage that lies between the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines.

Using rebreathers as well as open circuit diving, scientists collected specimens from the surface to a depth of 500 feet. A dozen species of gorgonian corals alone were discovered.

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