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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

UNBELIEVABLE: Tiny unsung ocean heroes nab research hub - Caught on Camera

A research facility will be built in Hobart to probe how Antarctic krill respond to climate change. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

In the charismatic creature stakes, krill don't typically rate a mention let alone elicit the kind of wondrous gasps reserved for the planet's largest animal.

Yet the small, unsung heroes of the Southern Ocean are the very things that sustain the mighty blue whale.

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