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Sea Otters Fight Climate Change

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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that kelp forests were able to absorb 12 times more carbon dioxide in the presence of sea otters, a result of the aquatic mammals preying on kelp-eating sea urchins. What do you think?


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Claudio Muscarella • Brass Polisher

“Boy, this whole climate change theory just keeps getting sillier.”

Nash Hurlbut • Collection Clerk

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"You know what else? They hold hands when they sleep. I swear to God. They hold hands while they drift around floating on their backs, sleeping.”

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