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Almost All The Viruses Found in a Vast Deep-Sea Mining Zone Were New to Science⁠


Deep in the abyss of the Pacific Ocean, the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone is home to the world's largest accumulation of polymetallic nodules.

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