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Quest for the Giant Squid

Watch a Discovery video on Smithsonian squid expert Clyde Roper’s search for...

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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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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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Solitary Deep-water Corals

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

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Sea Toad

This fish belongs to a group of anglerfishes known as lophiiformes. This species,...

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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...

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Dr. Stephen Cairns

Dr. Stephen Cairns is a research zoologist and chair of the Department of...

Personal Perspectives

Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own

The deep-sea is a vast part of the world’s ocean. Even today, it often surprises...

Personal Perspectives

The Discovery of Two Extreme Sea Stars

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