Approximately how many animals live in the sea and can't live on land, so would die if the sea froze?

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Q: How many living animals live in the ocean? How many different kinds are there? A: Well, we can't give you an exact number, because new species of ocean animals are being discovered by scientists every day! We are still a long way from knowing everything about the ocean - it was only in 1977 that deep sea hydrothermal vents were discovered on the ocean floor -scientists discovered thousands of animals that had never been seen before. Frederick Grassle and Nancy Maciolek wrote an article in the American Naturalist in 1992 that estimated that there may be as many as 10 million different kinds of organisms (animals, plants and bacteria) in the ocean!! http://oceanlink.island.net/ask/biodiversity.html Sep 08 06, 12:54 PM

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Fish, frogs, other pond dwellers, often freeze solid in the shallows during a sever winter, only to thaw and swim along as if this never occured come Spring. Can fish and other aquatic creatures really survive in a state of suspended animation until spring? The surprising answer is yes, sometimes. It is true that some fish can spend the winter frozen in ice and come out swimming once the ice melts. http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/frozenfish.html Sep 11 06, 8:53 PM