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2024-05-22Cnidaria editors participated in the very first LifeWatch-WoRMS Cnidaria Workshop

From February 27-29 2024, editors and experts on Cnidaria convened in Ostend to enhance the data and capabilities of their portals and pages in WoRMS.

2024-03-19WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2023

As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with World...

2024-03-05New release of the Bio-Oracle dataset v3

Bio-Oracle provides environmental data of the world ocean for present and future climate change scenarios. These data are mainly used by Lifewatch users to link biodiversity occurrence data to environmental...

2023-11-29Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2023

Once again taxonomists have continued to publish many wonderful new species throughout the last year. As we approach the end of 2023 it is time to think about nominations for The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species...

2023-10-09Ocean Census and WoRMS Announce Partnership to Enhance Rapid Discovery and Identification of Marine Life

Collaboration with network of volunteer taxonomic specialists key to mission to accelerate the discovery of ocean life.

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