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Bright bubblegum coral sits on a brown, hard substrate.
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Optimism in the Deep Sea - Connecting Corals, Museums, and Ocean Managers

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A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
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Ocean Acidification

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a pink coral
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Corals in the Juan de Fuca Canyon and the Davidson Seamount

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The Okeanos team comes upon an octocoral colony overgrown by zooanthid cnidarians, sea anemone-like animals, that gives it a beautiful red and orange coloring. 
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A Battle With Octocoral for Food

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Mah says of the spiny goniasterid sea stars, "They're very efficient and we've seen them devour the polyps inside primnoids kind of the way I just had my cookie." 
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Sea Stars Feed on Octocorals

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The Okeanos crew comes across the tiny jellyfish (Aegina citrea) that devours the tissue of octocoral feeding polyps. 
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Jellies Prey on Octocoral

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A congregation of Horseshoe Crabs.
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The Amazing Horseshoe Crab

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an image of an underwater vent
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Submarine Volcanoes and Hydrothermal Vents

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an upside down scuba diver
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Building Good Mussels

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a medicine bottle with an image of the ocean
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Medicines from the Sea

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Head to Foot

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

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