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Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.
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Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

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Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

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These wormlike animals make spiral tracks on the sea floor.
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Deep-Sea Worms

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On a seamount peak, a huge colony of brittle stars (likely Ophiacantha rosea) feeds on passing particles.
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Millions of Brittle Stars

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Colorful corals and brittlestars on Manning Seamount off the New England coast.
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Manning Seamount Deep Coral Communities

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Bubbles of methane gas rise through a mussel bed in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Methane Bubbles Up From Seep

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Photograph of an orange many-armed sea star on an erect delicately-branched coral in a dark sea.
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Sea Star on Coral at Seamount

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Venus fly-trap anemone in the Gulf of Mexico
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Venus Fly-Trap Anemone in the Gulf of Mexico

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The red paper lantern jellyfish is the focus of the latest podcast One Species at a Time, by the Encyclopedia of Life. Vacuumed up from its habitat a mile down in the ocean, the red paper lantern jelly may not look like much. Mostly water, it’s
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Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish: One Species at a Time

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A red deep-sea fish specimen.
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A Fish that Looks Like a Whale

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a deep sea jellyfish
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The Deep Sea

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