In the northern Pacific Ocean, a powerful ocean ‘gyre’ pulls together several ocean currents into a single region—the site of the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). However, longer before there was plastic waste in these waters, and in spite of it, the Northern Pacific ocean gyre is teeming with specially-adapted marine organisms that drift […]

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