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The island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland popped up basically in a week, and it’s been a perfect natural experiment for ecologists. See, a new island means a sterile ecosystem that gets filled in in waves, and learning how organisms do that helps us model what early life may have looked like. Here’s the story of this baby island and what researchers can learn from it.

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