There's a "floating
rainforest" in the sea.
When most people think of rainforests, they picture massive jungles filled with
trees and critters. However, somewhere in the Sargasso Sea sits the so-called
"floating rainforest" that consists not dense vegetation on
land, but of seaweed under water.
According
to Smithsonian,
each strand of brown Sargassum marine algae can grow to be the length of a
school bus. When they become matted together in the water, the masses—or
"forests"—of algae can be as large as several football fields. The
seaweed is not only impressively long and large, but also provides the perfect
place for a diverse collection of animals to live—not unlike an actual rainforest!
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