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Benthic scientists are interested in organisms on the seafloor.
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The ‘Mud People'

 Benthic scientists are interested in the creatures that live on and in the seafloor...
Scientists use this box corer to study marine life.
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Launching a Box Corer

 To learn more about the creatures living on the Arctic seafloor, scientists use a...
Fossil tooth whorl of ancient shark.
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Fossil tooth spiral

 This fossil tooth whorl of the ancient shark Helicoprion, dates back 290 million...
Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates geologic features similar to pingos on the Arctic Ocean floor where methane bubbles through sediments and forms hundreds of low hills. On land, a pingo is a place where permafrost bulges beneath a dried lake bed like this one in northern Canada.
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Ocean “Pingos”

 Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates...