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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Build Your Own Ecosystem

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The robotic arm of the ROV Quest finds life at an undersea vent.
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Studying Hydrothermal Vent Life

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This rarely seen smalleyed rabbitfish, belongs to the order Chimaera. Chimaeras are related to sharks and are cartilaginous animals—they have no real bones.
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Chimaera from the Deep

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Spider conch near China
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Spider Conch from China

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The squidworm has 10 tentacle-like appendages on its head.
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The Squidworm - A New Species

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A sea butterfly, or sea snail, swims in the open ocean.
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A Swimming Snail

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This jelly’s red color provides camouflage in the ocean depths.
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Unidentified Comb Jelly

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This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.
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What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

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