Saving the Iron Snail, Ghosts of the Potomac, Invasion of the Land Crabs, and More! Monday Morning Salvage: July 22, 2019.

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

This week in deep-sea mining:

The scaly-foot snail lives only at hydrothermal vent sites. Chong Chen.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

SPACE!

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

The mushroom cloud from the “Ivy Mike” nuclear test over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. Image: Photo/Los Alamos National Laborator
Destiny the porbeagle shark was almost beheaded by a plastic ring that got stuck around her neck as a baby, and which began to cut into her flesh as she grew older (Pictures: Sulikowski Shark and Fish Research Lab)
Marine Robotics & Remote Sensing, Duke University

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