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Hermit

WHOI paleoclimatologist Konrad Hughen snapped this photo of a hermit crab during a 2015 expedition to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Hughen studies climate change by looking at corals. The tiny coral animals called polyps live in the surface layer of a hard calcium carbonate skeleton. Every year, the polyps extract chemicals from…

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