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A single female elephant seal was fitted with a depth logger and sent back to sea, and it turned out she was diving more than a mile straight down into darkness so complete it has never seen sunlight, holding her breath for the better part of two hours, again and again, for months, in a place the human body could not survive for a second.
A creature built for extremes reveals the ocean’s most inhospitable depths through the eyes of a single tagged female, rewriting what we thought possible for a marine mammal’s body and mind.
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