Ocean

4 animal “scientists” helping us map the ocean

by JoAnna Wendel
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The ocean is, put lightly, a big place.

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The ocean takes up more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface and contains some of the most remote and hard-to-get-to places on the planet.

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