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04-13-2016, 01:40 AM
There's a massive 'crab swarm' off the coast of Panama
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A team of scientists conducting research on the seafloor off the coast of Panama made a surprising discovery last April when they came across*something in low-oxygen waters.
SEE ALSO: Scientists discover 3 suns in this alien planet's sky (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/alien-planet-rare-triple-suns/)
"When we dove down in the submarine, we **ticed the water became murkier as we got closer to the bottom," said Jesús Pineda, a biologist at Woods Hole Ocea**graphic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/swarming-red-crabs)*(WHOI)*and lead author of a study (https://peerj.com/articles/1770/)*published in the biomedical science journal*PeerJ.*
"There was this turbid layer," he added, in remarks provided by WHOI, "and you couldn't see a thing beyond it. We just saw this cloud but had ** idea what was causing it." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/crab-swarm/)
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A team of scientists conducting research on the seafloor off the coast of Panama made a surprising discovery last April when they came across*something in low-oxygen waters.
SEE ALSO: Scientists discover 3 suns in this alien planet's sky (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/alien-planet-rare-triple-suns/)
"When we dove down in the submarine, we **ticed the water became murkier as we got closer to the bottom," said Jesús Pineda, a biologist at Woods Hole Ocea**graphic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/swarming-red-crabs)*(WHOI)*and lead author of a study (https://peerj.com/articles/1770/)*published in the biomedical science journal*PeerJ.*
"There was this turbid layer," he added, in remarks provided by WHOI, "and you couldn't see a thing beyond it. We just saw this cloud but had ** idea what was causing it." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/crab-swarm/)
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