What's Eating All The Oil Spills?

Oil spills along our coasts are alarming. We think of them as catastrophes because of the wildlife they kill and the general mess they make. Think of the Exxon Valdez and many more. But what happens to all that spilled oil? And what happened to all the millions of barrels of oil that gushed out of sunken ships in World War II? It didn't all explode like in the movies. New research on vast naturally-occurring oil seeps is producing some astonishing knowledge. Nature has its ways of dealing with natural spills that dwarf the Exxon Valdez 100 times over.