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Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible

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Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea

July 2011

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11

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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

May 2012

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth

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What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth

May 2011

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