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Experiment to test how seabed mining could affect deep sea life has revealed unexpected impacts on jellyfish.
Scientists used special tanks on a research vessel to simulate conditions created by mining.
They found that the gelatinous animals were "highly sensitive" to plumes of sediment.
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