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The Shoreless Sargasso Sea: Marine Nursery and Thriving Ecosystem

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The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt with Ocean Currents and the Sargasso Sea ,  LÓPEZ et al ., 2021 ;   CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link There is one sea on Earth that touches no land because it has no shore (Eric RALLS, Earth.com ; May 24, 2025) https://www.earth.com/news/one-large-water-body-on-earth-does-not-touch-land-known-as-the-sargasso-sea/ Website : Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences ( Arizona State University ) https://bios.asu.edu/

Jellyfish Lake of Eil Malk, Palau: Home to Millions of Golden Jellyfish

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Jellyfish Lake Palau , Onyo ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Jellyfish Lake:  Palau's saltwater pool with a toxic bottom and surface waters brimming with millions of jellyfish (Sascha PARE, LiveScience ; May 9, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/jellyfish-lake-palaus-saltwater-pool-with-a-toxic-bottom-and-surface-waters-brimming-with-millions-of-jellyfish Jellyfish Lake Stratification Diagram ,  Mastigas_sp._side/CT-Snow/Davefoc ;  CC BY-SA 2.0 ,  Link Research Article: Jellyfish distribution and abundance in relation to the physical habitat of Jellyfish Lake, Palau (CIMINO et al. , 2018) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan-Cimino/publication/323152379_Jellyfish_distribution_and_abundance_in_relation_to_the_physical_habitat_of_Jellyfish_Lake_Palau/links/5e050b55299bf10bc37beeaa/Jellyfish-distribution-and-abundance-in-relation-to-the-physical-habitat-of-Jellyfish-Lake-Palau.pdf