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Giant wandering anemone

From: Wade Doak
Date: 24-01-08
Time: 14:29

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Divers fro the University of Alaska in Fairbanks have made a series of 300 dives in the remote western Aleutian Islands from Atu to Amlia. Among the new species found was a wandering anemone the size of a basketball that feeds as it moves over the bottom. Near to thermal vents a new kelp was discovered up to ten feet high, that may be a new genus: the golden kelp Aureophycus aleuticus.


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