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“The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep, quite simply, makes this planet habitable.”
― The Brilliant Abyss
― The Brilliant Abyss
“Some hexactinellids hold themselves aloft on long stalks and look like shocked sock puppets, mouths agape.”
― The Brilliant Abyss
― The Brilliant Abyss
“The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sight. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.”
― The Brilliant Abyss
― The Brilliant Abyss
“Molluscs aren’t mathematicians.”
― Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
― Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
“The paper publishing their findings depicts these connections in a diagram, which the scientists call the "birthday party figure" because it's so colorful, with bright streamers looping between many different deep-sea animal groups. It shows something that doesn't normally happen at birthday parties: all the guests are eating each other.”
― The Brilliant Abyss
― The Brilliant Abyss
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