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  2. A rarely seen deep sea fish is found in California, and ... - AOL

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    A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast and was brought ashore for study, marine experts said. The silvery, 12-foot ...

  3. Deep-sea community - Wikipedia

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    In the 1870s Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and colleagues aboard the Challenger expedition discovered many deep-sea creatures of widely varying types. The first discovery of any deep-sea chemosynthetic community including higher animals was unexpectedly made at hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific Ocean during geological explorations ...

  4. Pacific seahorse - Wikipedia

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    Range of the Pacific seahorse. The pacific seahorse is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from Baja California to Chile, with an additional transient population off of San Diego.The only known oceanic island population occurs around the Galapagos Islands [5] with some additional populations also located in Northern Peru.

  5. Extremely rare "doomsday fish" found off California coast - AOL

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    The California oarfish was indeed found just two days before a 4.4 earthquake struck the region and rattled Los Angeles. How U.S. scrambled Kabul withdrawal three years ago California, New York ...

  6. Davidson Seamount - Wikipedia

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    A seamount is an underwater volcano; Davidson rises 7,480 ft (2,280 m) above the surrounding ocean floor. Although there are over 30,000 seamounts in the Pacific Ocean alone, only about 0.1% of them have been explored. [4] The aqueous environment of the seamount means that it behaves differently from volcanoes on land.

  7. Largest known gathering of octopuses discovered off California

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    The octopus garden is believed to be home to some 20,000 female octopuses

  8. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    It is believed to be the second largest impact structure on Earth, and the only one whose peak ring is intact and directly accessible for scientific research. [4] The crater was discovered by Antonio Camargo and Glen Penfield, geophysicists who had been looking for petroleum in the Yucatán Peninsula during the late 1970s.

  9. Aplysia vaccaria - Wikipedia

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    Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. [1] It is the largest sea slug species.