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Sailor on a Sea of Lava

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Pumice Rafting and Long Distance Dispersal

There is plenty of evidence that pumice rafts do exactly that, that they may serve as a fast dispersal mecanis for many kinds of smaller life forms. And it's funny how much life that they're just coated with by the end, like so they have these photos where they identify all the different life forms that are clinging to these floating rocks. They've got brizoans anemones, mollusks, goose barnacles, coral, sciana, bacteria, macroalgy and some other things,. i don't even know how to pronounceit, like these can become sort of these, these rafts of life going from place to place.

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