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- In 1979, the RISE project first discovered hydrothermal vents known as 'black smokers', on a mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific Ocean.
- Reproduction in the sea wasp Carybdea marsupialis involves a sexual reproduction phase, budding and fragmentation.
- American chemical weapons researcher and oceanographer Thomas Gordon Thompson sold his stamp collection to pay for his private island.