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Beautiful crab water colors
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Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

These watercolor sketches of Trapezia crabs were drawn by Frederick Bayer, a former...
This small sea star, little more than an inch across, is orange on top and whitish underneath.
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Little Sea Star

It’s an honor to have something or someone named after you. Dr. David Pawson,...
This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.
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Purple Sea Urchin

This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and...
A juvenile swimming crab sits on a bed of sargassum seaweed.
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Adult Swimming Crab

When they get larger, Portunus sayi are formidable predators, quick to consume any...
Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.
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Brown Grass Shrimp

Another common species of sargassum shrimp, Leander...
The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

The sargassum is coated with encrusting organisms, such as bryozoans and...
A brittled star clings to damaged deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico
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Brittle Star Clings to Damaged Deep-sea Corals

In 2010, scientists from NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute found dead and...
paleobiology field equipment for excavating a fossil whale in central america
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Equipment for a Fossil Excavation

Paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
A "dumbo" octopus is captured by an ROV.
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Capturing a Deep-Sea Octopod

Success! A so-called "dumbo" octopod is chased and finally captured by a suction...
New Sea Urchin Species Discovered Near New Caledonia in the South Pacific
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Dazzling New Sea Urchin Species

Simon Coppard, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research...
This deep-sea jellyfish was caught on film by an ROV east of Izu-Oshina Island, Japan.
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Atolla Jellyfish from the Waters of Japan

The ROV Hyper Dolphin caught this deep-sea jelly (Atolla wyvillei) on film east of...
The crew aboard Oceana’s research vessel Ranger were surprised to discover large colonies of deep-sea white coral in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
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Deep Coral Sighted in Mediterranean

Using a deep-diving ROV, the crew aboard Oceana’s research vessel Ranger were...

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