Radiation | Deep Sea News - Part 2

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A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals

Dr. M April 1, 2011 age Arminius Augustus Battle of the Teutoburg Forest black coral Coral Germanic growth rate Leiopathes lifespan nuclear bomb testing Radiation radiocarbon dating Romans tree rings Varsus

The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…

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Adaptations Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp

Kevin Zelnio April 1, 2010 Alvinocarididae Best of Zelnio Black Smoker Hydrothermal Vent Infrared Mid-Atlantic Ridge Radiation Retina Rhodopsin Rimicaris exoculata Shrimp vision

*Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with…

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