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A close up of a grey whale face
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Nature's Best Photography 2018

Explore the winning photos from the 2018 Nature's Best Photography contest! Every...
Mon, 10/15/2018 - 13:05
Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:47
Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
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A Tale of a Right Whale

Suspended at the center of the Sant Ocean Hall is a life-size model of a North...
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 15:58
Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

These Themisto hyperiids live in the top 200 meters of cold waters around the...
A side-view of a translucent phronima with a large red eye.
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Phronima Alien

This is another view of Phronima from the side. The eyes take up most of the head,...
A translucent, female hyperiid surrounded by white young in a barrel-shaped body cavity.
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Phronima Female and Young

This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria) is surrounded by her young, residing in...
Two small, translucent hyperiids with very large eyes.
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Paraphromina

This much smaller hyperiid (in the genus Paraphromina) has eyes that make up...
A side-view of translucent hyperiid with a black background.
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Cystisoma

This hyperiid (in the genus Cystisoma) has only one pair of eyes—but they are...
A red Scypholanceola aestiva stares at the screen with large orange eyes.
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Scypholanceola aestiva

Scypholanceola aestiva looks like an armored alien of the deep. It doesn’t have...
Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller...
Radiolarian Shells
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

The shells of radiolarians rank among some of the treasures of the ocean, with...
Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...

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