al wrote:

...............They collect the water, strain it through ever
finer filters to collect a gooey glob of micro organisms and then they
extract their DNA by slicing it into tiny nucleotide bits, then they
replicate these bits, then they REASSEMBLE them back into complete
genomes....and out of this gene puree and reassembly process comes something
a computer program can use to count the number of unique organisms that were
in the sea water sample BEFORE they were chopped to bits.

One of the remarkable things they have discovered, other than the Amazing
and unpredictably large number of new species.........................

Well no wonder! It sounds to me like they are MAKING new species.

Steve