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All life in the ocean is concentrated in the surface layers, because sunlight penetrates there. Due to it, photosynthetic organisms feed, which underlie the nutrition of all the rest. But at great depths, at the very bottom, in the central parts of the mid-ocean ridges, there are underwater hot springs. In appearance, they resemble giant tubes up to several tens of meters in height.

Around them, in complete darkness, life is in full swing, however, the animals are not very similar to the inhabitants of the ocean familiar to us. The fact is that black smokers with hot water release a lot of minerals. That's what they smoke!

Bacteria feed on these minerals. Chemosynthesis instead of photosynthesis. Other animals feed on these bacteria, larger ones, and so on.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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Mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects produce a bite not with one proboscis, but with a whole arsenal of means. The tip of the proboscis is used in the initial phase to find a good place on the skin of the victim, and the exact mechanism of this process is not yet clear. Then there are two mandibles, which pierce the skin and are used as spacers, and two maxillae with teeth at the ends, which serve to widen the wound by sawing. Then comes the turn of two hollow needles: saliva with an anticoagulant that prevents blood clotting is injected through the hypopharynx, and direct blood absorption occurs through the labrum.

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