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Crabs Eat Everything Around Me, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Methane Gas Bubbles in the Ocean

The video was captured by the moneray bay aquarium research institute team in two thousand 11. They were doing a survey of these methane hydrates and oil seaps at a depth of about one thousand 260 meters. And they came across a rift in the sea floor that was producing this steady little trickle of bubbles rising toward the surface. While the researchers were looking at this stream of bubbles, suddenly, hey, here comes a crab. It's trying to grab em with its claws. But then from here, things start getting weirder. Because again, what are these bubbles? Their methane. When mixed with water, it can turn into methane hydrate. Then the the bubbles are

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