Oyintade Ayomide Adefemi
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The Mystery of Earth's Greatest Migration
Perhaps you envision enormous herds making their annual journey across the Serengeti or transcontinental planes when you think of the largest animal migrations on Earth. every year, the sky is painted orange. The largest mass migration on Earth, however, takes place undersea every single night. Submarine Sonar captured these odd, thick signals emerging from the depths during World War II, which appeared to be the ocean bottom shifting up and down by up to 3,000 feet in some places. The ocean floor was still. The sonar was actually picking up vast swarms of the microscopic zooplankton, which were nightly rising from the depths to the top and descending again. It turns out that this occurs every night in every ocean, which absolutely perplexed scientists.
By Oyintade Ayomide Adefemi10 months ago in Earth