How sharks, penguins and bacteria find food in the big, wide ocean

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Mar 12, 2008 5:53 AMNov 5, 2019 2:17 AM

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Some of us have enough trouble finding the food we want among the ordered aisles of a supermarket. Now imagine that the supermarket itself is in the middle of a vast, featureless wasteland and is constantly on the move, and you begin to appreciate the challenges faced by animals in the open ocean.

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