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Slow Life: Time-Lapse on the Coral Reef

How does a coral spend its day? Most of us would say: not doing much. To the human...

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Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals

From parrotfish that cover themselves in a blanket of their own mucus to tiny pygmy...

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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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Spaceship Mollusk

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

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Fireworm Bristles

No, this isn't a bundle of paintbrushes: you're looking at a fireworm...

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Lobster Egg

Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult...

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Blue Button Tentacle

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

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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

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

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Closed-Mouth Coral

A live coral polyp with turquoise tissue and brown tentacles closes its mouth (the...

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Sea Gooseberry Larva

These beautiful wisps are the hair-like cilia of a sea gooseberry larva, a common...

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Sparkling Sponge Spicules

These sparkling sponge spicules are microscopic needle-like structures that many...

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Soft Coral Close-Up

These neon balloons weren't blown up for a party: they are the colorful tentacles...