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“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.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

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

“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

“A long, ridged plastic tube, like a vacuum cleaner pipe, known as the slurp gun...”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss