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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Giant Squid

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Head to Foot

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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This Old Tubeworm

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Bubbles of methane gas rise through a mussel bed in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Methane Bubbles Up From Seep

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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

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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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Diversity of Deep-Sea Corals

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.
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Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery

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Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.
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The Surprising Elegance of Midwater Sea Life

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This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.
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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

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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

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