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From the Ted Talk by Laura Robinson: The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor

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But 4,000 years is not enough to get us back to our last glacial maximum. So what do we do? We go in for these fossil specimens. This is what makes me really unpopular with my research team. So going along, there's giant sharks everywhere, there are pyrosomes, there are simmniwg htuoilahrnos, there's giant sponges, but I make everyone go down to these dead fossil areas and snped ages kind of shoveling around on the seafloor. And we pick up all these corals, binrg them back, we sort them out. But each one of these is a different age, and if we can find out how old they are and then we can mesurae those chemical signals, this helps us to find out what's been going on in the ocean in the past.

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But 4,000 years is not enough to get us back to our last glacial maximum. So what do we do? We go in for these fossil specimens. This is what makes me really unpopular with my research team. So going along, there's giant sharks everywhere, there are pyrosomes, there are ________ ____________, there's giant sponges, but I make everyone go down to these dead fossil areas and _____ ages kind of shoveling around on the seafloor. And we pick up all these corals, _____ them back, we sort them out. But each one of these is a different age, and if we can find out how old they are and then we can _______ those chemical signals, this helps us to find out what's been going on in the ocean in the past.

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  1. bring
  2. swimming
  3. holothurians
  4. spend
  5. measure

Original Text

But 4,000 years is not enough to get us back to our last glacial maximum. So what do we do? We go in for these fossil specimens. This is what makes me really unpopular with my research team. So going along, there's giant sharks everywhere, there are pyrosomes, there are swimming holothurians, there's giant sponges, but I make everyone go down to these dead fossil areas and spend ages kind of shoveling around on the seafloor. And we pick up all these corals, bring them back, we sort them out. But each one of these is a different age, and if we can find out how old they are and then we can measure those chemical signals, this helps us to find out what's been going on in the ocean in the past.

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