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A Black Goo Was Oozing From a Ship on the Great Lakes — and Teeming with Life

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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Research vessel Blue Heron trawls the Great Lakes, gathering data from the water. The floating laboratory’s most recent discovery, however, came from an unexpected location: its own rudder. While docked after a long cruise to study algae blooms in lakes Erie and Superior in September, the crew noticed a black, tar-like substance oozing from the rudder shaft, the mechanism that allows the 87-foot-long (nearly 27-met…

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