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Nature is always able to respond to environmental crises and the human hand. And especially to surprise us with its vitality. Not that the alarms on the progressive drying up of the seas and oceans is unfounded, God forbid, but a study published in Nature and made by Xabier Irigoyen, a researcher of the Spanish Foundation AZTI-Tecnalia and the University of ‘Saudi Arabia “KAUST” showed that the segment semi-abyssal ocean turns out to be populated in a full-bodied, almost in the throes of overcrowding, there would in fact cuttlefish, squid and other ocean creatures that reside virtually on the bottom and do not intend to stop to grow in number.
Ten million tons of fish so far deemed “niche” and whose biological nature and complexity is, therefore, to discover. This is good news, says Irigoyen, because their lives and their movements help balance the marine and oceanic in a striking manner: “These species – say – go back at night to feed on the upper layers of the ocean and follow from them during the day, for not be seen by predators. A behavior that accelerates the transport of organic matter in the ocean, the biological motor that removes CO2 from the atmosphere. “
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