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Hard-to-see: The secret life in the oceans
Microbes: Acantharians
Scientists say the acantharians are one of the four types of large amoebae that occur in marine open waters. Their fragile skeletons are made of a single crystal of strontium sulfate that quickly dissolves in the ocean water after the cell dies.
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