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A squat lobster and blackbelly rosefish find shelter on a Lophelia pertusa coral reef off the southeastern United States.
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Deep-sea Corals

 It may be the last place you’d expect to find corals—up to 6,000 m (20,000 ft)...
Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Corals and Coral Reefs

 Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life,...
two mangrove trees in the crashing waves
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Mangroves

 Mangroves are survivors. With their roots submerged in water, mangrove trees thrive...
Juvenile Clam with Tentacles
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Spaceship Mollusk

 No, this is not an alien spaceship from another world—it is a baby file clam...
Fireworm Setae
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Fireworm Bristles

 No, this isn't a bundle of paintbrushes: you're looking at a fireworm...
Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult features: an eye and legs.
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Lobster Egg

 Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult...
This tentacle belongs to a blue button. While it has a central “float” with streaming tentacles like typical jellyfish, the blue button is a colony of many small hydroid animals.
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Blue Button Tentacle

 This tentacle belongs to a blue button (Porpita porpita), an animal that looks like...
Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

 This colony of a lacy crust bryozoan (Membranipora membranacea) started off as just...