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A diver on the reef near Moorea collects samples.
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Research Diver in Moorea

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Photograph of a bristly brown and white worm, with one end pressed against a pale green coral.
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Fireworm Takes on Fire Coral

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Scientist Martha Nizinski examines a sample of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, collected 600-m (1,969-ft) deep off the coast of the southeastern United States.
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Deep-Sea Coral Sample

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A squat lobster and blackbelly rosefish find shelter on a Lophelia pertusa coral reef off the southeastern United States.
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Coral Reef Lobster and Fish

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a man snorkels at the surface near a coral reef while a woman sits on a boat and watches
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The Truth About Corals and Sunscreen

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Corrosion to Corals

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Caribbean Coral Reef and Climate Case Study

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Syllid fireworms can be found mainly on the seafloor, but they switch to a planktonic form to reproduce, where the females use bioluminescent signals.
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Syllid Fireworms

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Orangutan crabs are covered in thin reddish hairs, and are frequently found living in bubble coral.
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Orangutan Crabs from Komodo Island

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Whip coral gobies live on coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific, where they are found on a single species of coral: black wire coral.
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Whip Coral Goby Portrait

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 Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a specimen of a fan sponge (Phakellia sp.) collected at a deep-sea coral study site off the coast of South Carolina.    
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Fan Sponge

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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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Deep-Sea Coral Community

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