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A brittle star clings to the branches of a deep sea coral
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A Brittle Star May Be a Coral’s Best Friend

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The crew aboard Oceana’s research vessel Ranger were surprised to discover large colonies of deep-sea white coral in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
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Deep Coral Sighted in Mediterranean

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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A photo of Oceana's ice class research vessel, the Hanse Explorer, on the Baltic Sea.
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Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

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The elusive giant squid
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Reflections on the Successful Search for the Giant Squid

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Scientists attached this Crittercam to a sperm whale in an effort to film a giant squid in its natural habitat.
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Crittercam

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Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.
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Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

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A sea sponge underwater
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Sea Sponges: Pharmacies of the Sea

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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 deep-sea octopod wraps itself around a submersible’s robotic arm in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Octopod on Submersible Arm

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Dr. Clyde Roper in a one-person submersible.
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One-Person Submersible

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
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Uncovering Biodiversity… with ARMS and a Submarine Claw

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