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... farthest flung, and perhaps most ancient communities. Among their more enduring mysteries are exactly how these ecosystems become populated with life. There's evidence that whale falls act as critical steppingstones, or once did. In preindustrialized whaling days, when millions of behemoths were alive at any given time, their carcasses—which may endure and produce gases for up to a century—would...
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extinction
julia whitty
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