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Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

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Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways ...

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Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike ...