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Scientist's lifelong obsession with mystery of elusive 'pink zebra' seaweed

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After 40 years of searching, Prof Christine Maggs has confirmed a pink-striped seaweed found in UK maerl beds as a new species unknown to science, with a sample now added to the Natural History Museum's official collection.

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The scientific significance is the formal identification of a single new seaweed species; it does not by itself change conservation or management of maerl beds.

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