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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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Jaw of the goblin shark
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The Goblin Shark

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Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

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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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A live Acesta clam attached near the base of a small Callogorgia colony.
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Clam On Deep-sea Coral

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Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, deep-sea corals were colonized by hydroids and their branches began to break off. 
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Floc On Gulf Coral

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Deep-sea Coral In the Gulf of Mexico

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A healthy, deep sea octocoral and their brittle star partners
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Brittle stars and their best friends the octocorals

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A brittle star sits in the middle of a deep sea octocoral that is damaged from a nearby oil spill
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Oil spill damaged octocoral

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A deep sea anglerfish called a dreamer
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Deep Sea Dreamers

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.
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Ocean Today Every Full Moon

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