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Dead Squid Moms Are a Gift to the Ocean Floor
Description: Animals living on the ocean floor, where it's too dark for anything to grow, have to wait for food to fall on them. Mostly this means they eat "marine snow," a steady drift of tiny life forms and detritus from the ocean's surface. But robotic expeditions off the coast of Mexico have revealed what might be another major dining option on the ocean floor: dead squid moms. [Source: Discover Magazine]
URL: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2017/12/22/dead-squid-moms-are-a-gift-to-the-ocean-floor/#.Wj_35TRG3Gi
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Source: Discover Magazine
Publish Date: 12/22/2017
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