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Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Amanda Haag recaps the state of research on the ecological
communities based on whale falls. Organisms like Osedax
thrive on the fat- and sulfur-rich carcasses of large whales. The
falls are hard to come by naturally, so researchers have created them
artificially by sinking whales that have beached and died.
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