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'An ancient, complex, and very serious game is going on': The weird ways creatures feed in the open oceanSea angels — a type of swimming slug — that live in the open ocean are carnivorous little creatures that have evolved to feed on sea snails.
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Deep tidal channels cut between 'pirate hotspot' islands in the BahamasEarth from space This 2015 photo from the International Space Station showcases the deep tidal channels that cut through a line of cays in the Bahamas. Astronauts say it is "one of the most recognizable points on the planet."
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Scientists are 'gobsmacked' by strange reversals in deep-ocean currentsThe speed and direction of deep currents off Mozambique’s coast are more subject to change than scientists expected.
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Nazaré: The big-wave surfer's paradise born out of the largest underwater canyon in EuropeEvery year, record-seeking surfers and spectators descend on the small Portuguese town of Nazaré for the "big wave" season, when water can surge up to 100 feet (30 meters) tall.
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Gulf Stream collapse would throw tropical monsoons into chaos for at least 100 years, study findsIf Atlantic Ocean currents collapse due to melting ice sheets, researchers predict there will be huge shifts in tropical monsoon systems — and the effects could be irreversible for at least 100 years.
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White Shark Café: The mysterious meeting spot for great whites in the middle of the Pacific OceanEvery winter and spring, great white sharks that usually dwell off the coast of California gather in a remote section of ocean the size of Colorado — and scientists are slowly piecing together why.
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Silver is being buried beneath the sea, and it's all because of climate change, study findsFor the first time, researchers have linked the amount of silver being buried in marine sediments to human-made climate change.
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Giant underwater avalanche decimated Atlantic seafloor 60,000 years ago, 1st-of-its-kind map revealsResearchers have mapped the path of a giant submarine avalanche that tore through the Agadir Canyon — a deep trench in the Atlantic seafloor off the coast of Morocco — 60,000 years ago.
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Massive landslide dams Canadian river, trapping endangered fish on the wrong sideEarth from space A recent landslide along the banks of a river in British Columbia completely dammed the waterway, leading to evacuation warnings and potentially dooming an endangered fish population trapped on the wrong side of the debris.
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