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Marine Mud Is High in Fish Poop
Description: Will you still enjoy feeling the beach between your toes this summer knowing it's partly fish feces? In a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that 14% of the calcium carbonate that makes up the muddy floors of shallow tropical seas is fish poop. [Source: ScienceNOW]
URL: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-marine-mud-is-largel.html?ref=hp
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Source: ScienceNOW
Publish Date: 2/22/2011
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