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Published online 18 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030714-14
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Antarctic bone crushers could soon be back
Warming set to return Southern Ocean to its cut-throat past.
Global warming could threaten Antarctic sea life with a re-invasion by powerful, fast-moving predators that deserted the area 35 million years ago, researchers announced this week at a meeting in London.
Throughout the world's oceans, small crustaceans, starfish and molluscs are nimble, armour-plated or remain hidden to avoid being eaten by fast-moving fish, sharks, rays, crabs and lobsters with powerful jaws or claws.
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