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The miracle of marine snow

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Marine snow is the organic debris that floats slowly from the surface, down into the ocean's deepest depths. It looks tiny and unimportant, but without it we wouldn't have any life in the deep sea at all.

What is marine snow, and why wouldn't you want to make a snow angel in it?

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