pelagic
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The scientists said deep divers, such as sperm whales, and pelagic dolphins showed a steadier increase in strandings since the 1990s.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
J. janthina are a pelagic snail species, meaning they spend their lives at the surface of the ocean as opposed to in tide pools or along the ocean shore.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
Now the scientists — who were researching pelagic sharks at the country’s Canary Islands — are going to study the anglerfish’s body, hoping to learn more about its uncharacteristic behavior.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025
Their analyses show that the rapid transition of ancestrally bottom-dwelling, or benthic, anglerfishes into open-ocean, or pelagic, habitats occurred during a period of major global warming 50 to 35 million years ago.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2024
As they are pelagic, the shells are not readily to be obtained.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter
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