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A Mysterious Glow in The Ocean Turns Out to Be Billions of Tiny Creatures


A beaming patch of turquoise amidst the Southern Ocean's blue-grey waters that's baffled scientists ever since it was first spotted in satellite images in the early 2000s may have finally been deciphered by oceanographers.

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