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The bag contains Bowser’s foram samples as retrieved by a siphon deployed into the dive hole that juts off NSF\'s McMurdo Station, Antarctica.  Air pumped through the siphon creates suction that allows divers to corral forams into the net bag, much like an enormous version of the siphons used to clean home aquaria. Credit: Peter West, NSF

The bag contains Bowser’s foram samples as retrieved by a siphon deployed into the dive hole that juts off NSF's McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Air pumped through the siphon creates suction that allows divers to corral forams into the net bag, much like an enormous version of the siphons used to clean home aquaria. Credit: Peter West, NSF

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