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Encounters with Bioluminescent Creatures

Scientists describe the amazing bioluminescent creatures they encounter as they...

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Giant Squid

Giant squid live up to their name: the largest giant squid ever recorded by...

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Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery

Bioluminescence is one of the more captivating adaptations that have evolved in...

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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

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

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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

On the deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, ecosystems made up of fish, corals, sea...

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Deep Sea Dreamers

A dreamer is not only the term for someone with aspirations and goals, it is also a...

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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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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

Tropical hatchetfish (Argyropelecus lychnus), like the one shown in this X-ray...

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Big Red Jellyfish

Marine biologists from MBARI nicknamed this startlingly large jellyfish—which...

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Unidentified Comb Jelly

This jelly’s red color provides camouflage in the deep ocean. Red light rarely...

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Largest Eye in the World, Giant Squid

Giant squid have the largest eye in the animal kingdom. At up to 10 inches in...

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Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish: One Species at a Time

The Encyclopedia of Life brings us a new installment of the podcast, One...