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Anemone Feeding Time

Anemones are known for serving as homes for Nemo and countless other small fish and...

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The Secret Life of Plankton

Imagine if a fish at the market could tell you where it came from; what would it...

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Jellyfish and Comb Jellies

Jellyfish and comb jellies are gelatinous animals that drift through the ocean's...

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Eel, Embedded

"A whitemouth moray eel emerges from the reef following a coral bloom in Honaunau...

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Coral Catshark

Not all sharks are a dull gray: the coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus), for...

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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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A Snail's Rainbow Radula

This abstract image is a close-up of the tiny teeth that cover the radula of a...

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Starfish Feeding on Mussels

Ochre seastars (Pisaster ochraceus) feed on invertebrates, such as coral and...

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The Vampire Squid from Hell

With a scientific name that means "the vampire squid from hell," you'd expect the...

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The Bobbit Worm

There aren't any mummies or zombies buried under the seafloor: instead the ocean...

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Revealing the Largest Octopus

Weighing 600 pounds (around 272kg) and having a 30 foot (around 9 meters) arm span,...