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The new species belongs to the Clavelina genus of sea squirts. Tiny and strange, the animal measures just 20 millimetres long ...

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Floating about 500 feet offshore of Illinois Beach State Park, Hillary Glandon tightened her scuba goggles, grabbed a small ...

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