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In the artist's latest feature, an amnesiac astronaut wakes up on an unknown planet after a mission goes wrong.

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But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion in the Southern Ocean, the tiny crustacean’s collective impact across the entire planet is enormous. Their swarms are so massive they ...