What’s feeding the 5,000-mile blob of seaweed growing in the Atlantic?
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The Ecology of Sargassum
Sargassum was observed by Columbus and his sailors when he came to the New World in 1492. It provides habitat to over 100 species of fishes and invertebrates, as well as endangered species like sea turtles. The name Sargasso Sea actually does come from the seaweed Sargassum. In the 1930s, Albert Parr, an oceanographer, collected it with a net and quantified it.
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