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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

Bright bubblegum coral sits on a brown, hard substrate.

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Optimism in the Deep Sea - Connecting Corals, Museums, and Ocean Managers

The deep-sea is a treasure trove of resources. Diverse ecosystems cozy up next to...

June 2020

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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms

Lopping off one’s arm sounds like a harrowing experience, but for one deep-sea...

August 2019

Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.

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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...

October 2018

The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu

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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

There are thousands of marine invertebrate animals in the ocean, from small to...

June 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

After ocean scientists sort deep-sea coral samples into their different types, they measure and photograph the specimens.

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Studying Deep-Sea Corals

What happens to deep-sea coral samples after they are collected? In this image...

Thu, 06/09/2011 - 09:23

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

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

Deep sea animals have to live in a very cold, dark, and high-pressure environment...

Tue, 12/08/2009 - 15:08

Mangrove roots provide an underwater habitat for many marine species.

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Mangroves: Photos of Plants and Animals

Mangrove is the name for a tree—and also for a complex ecosystem—that bridges...

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 11:48

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Up Close and Personal with a Mangrove Root

I got a lot of funny looks at the airport when I opened the oversized cooler for...

October 2017

Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.

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The Discovery of Two Extreme Sea Stars

Recently, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher Chris Mah and...

May 2015

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Diversity of Deep-Sea Corals

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