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Shifting Baselines -- Researchers Find More Clues to Unimaginable Ocean Life Abundance in the Past

"Using such diverse sources as old ship logs, literary texts, tax accounts, newly translated legal documents and even mounted trophies, Census 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." - excerpt from this UnderwaterTimes.com article.

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