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Article: ' Extinct' seaweed found by scientists.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2005
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CONSERVATIONISTS have found a rare seaweed off the North Wales coast.
The barbed red seaweed, which was feared extinct in the UK, was found in Tremadog Bay, off the Lloen peninsula, during a joint underwater survey Countryside Council for Wales and Environment Agency teams.
CCW marine monitoring team leader Bill Sanderson said: 'A casual observer swimming over the seabed might well find the sand, mud and gravel areas distinctly uninteresting.
'But a closer look under a ...