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Drugs From the Deep with Shirley Pomponi

Dr. Shirley Pomponi talks about thirty years of experience diving and searching for...

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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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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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Harp Sponge

This newly-discovered carnivorous sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) was found using...

Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

Most scuba divers scour coral reefs looking for colorful fish, natural beauty, and...

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Seamounts: Underwater Oases

Thousands of seamounts—most of them undersea volcanoes—tower above the muddy...