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a colorful sea urchin with red and white striped spikes
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Dazzling New Sea Urchin Species

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Squid size comparison chart: Lycoteuthis springeri (10-12cm), Leachia atlantica (up to 12cm), Promachoteuthis sp. (up to 5cm), Batoteuthis scolops (up to 20cm).
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What is the Largest Squid? A Squid Size Comparison Chart

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A tongue-like organ called the radula rams food down the giant squid's throat.
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Giant Squid Beak and Radula

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Researchers adopted the “yabbie pump,” the long silver tool shown here, from Australian fishing gear.
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Collecting Shallow-Water Specimens with the "Yabbie Pump"

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A hermit crab looks out from its coral dwelling in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
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Coral Hermit Crab

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The elusive giant squid
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Giant Squid Caught Live On Screen

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Eating Whale Bone

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The sea star Odontaster validus and sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri are often found living in association with one another along the Antarctic coastline, here during the Census of Marine Life.
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Sea Stars and Urchins off Antarctica

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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Prints from Ernst Haeckel

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two brittle stars in a tank
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Brittle Star Splits

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Shell of an orange and white cone snail species.
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A New Cone Snail - Attenuiconus marileeae

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Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a squat lobster (Eumunida picta) collected at the Lophelia reefs off Cape Lookout, North Carolina.    
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Squat Lobster from Reefs of North Carolina

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