5,000-mile wide "blob" of seaweed headed for Florida

Originally published at: 5,000-mile wide "blob" of seaweed headed for Florida | Boing Boing

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Algae, seaweed? They are different things, right?

DeSantis is preparing to kick it back out to sea.

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Seaweed means types of algae that grow big and multicellular. In this case brown algae, though they also evolved separately among the red and green algae.

Normally when you talk about blooms it’s the microscopic unicellular ones, in this case dinoflagellate algae, a couple of which produce nasty toxins.

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