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Potato chips of the sea

May 30, 2019

Sometimes referred to as the potato chips of the sea, two pteropods (Diacria trispinosa) move through the Ocean Twilight Zone in search of food. Photo by Paul Caiger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

TOPICS: Ocean Life / Twilight Zone

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