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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Sea Animals Change Climate Via Flutters and Flaps?


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Jellyfish float in a lake in Palau in an undated photo. Jellyfish experiments for a July 2009 study suggest that sea creatures' swimming contributes heavily to the mixing of ocean layers, which in turn influences Earth's climate, researchers say.

Photograph by Tim Laman/NGS