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Wavechasers and the Samoan Passage

Watch as a team of wave chasers heads to Somoa where they search for an undersea...

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Studying Deep-Sea Corals

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

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Solitary Deep-water Corals

These corals from the Smithsonian collections are Stephanocyathus (A.)...

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Collecting Gold Coral from the Deep Sea

The robotic arm of a Pisces submersible collects a gold coral colony (Gerardia sp.)...

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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...

Lesson Plan

Head to Foot

The lesson begins with a broader introduction on new species discovered around...

A Brittle Star May Be a Coral’s Best Friend

Five thousand feet (1,524 meters) beneath the sea in the Gulf of Mexico, an...

Meet the Tiny Bacteria That Give Anglerfishes Their Spooky Glow

Descend two hundred meters (about 656 feet) below the surface and the ocean is...

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A Fish that Looks Like a Whale

This deep sea creature, the whalefish (Cetomimidae), has a whale-like body, a...