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Seamounts may serve as refuges for deep-sea animals that struggle to survive elsewhere

Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast. It has generally been ...

Biology /

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