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Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.
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A Look at Life in the Deep Sea

These are just some of the animals that live in the deep ocean or in the midwater,...
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 11:38
On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....
April 2018
Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Corals and Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life,...
April 2018
Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Giant Squid

Giant squid live up to their name: the largest giant squid ever recorded by...
April 2018
A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
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Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is sometimes called ā€œclimate change’s equally evil twin,ā€...
April 2018
A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

You may have seen the sparkle of fireflies on a summer’s night. The fireflies...
April 2018
Coral scientist Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a deep-sea coral bed off the coast of Hawaii.
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Diversity of Deep-Sea Corals

Sample the surprising diversity of deep-sea corals. See some of the ways they...
Wed, 06/08/2011 - 17:25
A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Collaborator Research

Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:02
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

On a beach in PiƱa, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals

It's a new age of discovery for scientists studying deep-sea corals. In this image...
Thu, 06/09/2011 - 09:30
Close-up photograph of translucent coral polyps, showing the symbiotic algae living inside.
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Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching

Tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthellae live in the tissues of many animals,...
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:14
Colorful fishes throng a reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals

From parrotfish that cover themselves in a blanket of their own mucus to tiny pygmy...
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 14:05

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