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James Nestor

James Nestor is a San Francisco-based journalist and author of Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves. He also directs the sperm whale communication project CETI (Cetacean Echolocation Translation Initiative). Over the course of his career as a journalist, Nestor has written for The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, Scientific American, The San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, and more. Find more of his work at mrjamesnestor.com.mrjamesnestor.com

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Hundreds of resident brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) circle above Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, a tiny set of islets in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Photograph by Novus Select

Life on the Rocks

By James Nestor, Novus Select & Solvin Zankl

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Immersive

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November 21, 2017

To learn how life on Earth first began—and how it might evolve elsewhere in the universe—scientists are probing rocks deep beneath the ocean's surface.