Curious places in Palau
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A landlocked marine lake where millions of golden jellyfish have evolved to be non-stinging because they have no predators. They migrate across the lake daily following the sun to feed their symbiotic algae.
An underwater cave system with trapped air pockets called "chandelier" formations. The air inside has a different composition from atmosphere, and unique bacteria survive on the cave walls.
A photosynthetic bacterium that lives inside sea squirts, providing them with sugar. It lacks a cell wall and can't survive outside its host, representing an intermediate stage in the evolution of chloroplasts from free-living bacteria.
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