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What are ocean beds?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Ocean beds are much muchdeeper, and support only very basic life forms like bacteria and shrimp that feed on them in isolated parts. This is because no light reaches there and the pressure are such that marine life as we popularly conceive cannot survive.

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