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Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Books, movies, art, theater, conservation, and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline. 
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Thursday, 10 February 2005 |
Amanda Haag recaps the state of research on the ecological
communities based on whale falls. Organisms like Osedax
thrive on the fat- and sulfur-rich carcasses of large whales. The
falls are hard to come by naturally, so researchers have created them
artificially by sinking whales that have beached and died.
9:48:24 AM
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