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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.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Molluscs aren’t mathematicians.”
― Helen Scales, 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.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss