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Article: Rachel Carson's World of Wonder.
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- March 1, 1999
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Imagine you're a scientist studying the sea life along the Maine coast. It is early morning and the tide has gone out. A deep pool of cold water, trapped by rocks at low tide, looks like a good place to study the animals that live on the seashore. You step into the tide pool and feel the water cover most of your legs. Soon you are watching a crab. Perhaps you even discover one of the crab's enemies. You might find sea flowers (anemones) with stinging tentacles, green sea urchins, or tiny fish called blennies. You lose track of the time. All you are thinking about is the community of small creatures living in your tide pool.
Finally you start to climb out of the ...