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A round sea potato with hair-like spikes laying flat against its body.
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Sea Potato

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Comb jellies (such as this Bolinopsis species) are named for their combs: the rows of cilia lining their bodies that propel them through the ocean.
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Ctenophore Combs - Close Up

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This day octopus (Octopus cyanea) has shaped itself like seagrass or some coral so hide from predators or stalk prey.
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Camouflaged Octopus Blends In

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The midwater scyphomedusa Atolla tenella, as seen under a microscope.
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Midwater Sea Jelly

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Comb jellies have fragile bodies and are difficult to capture.
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Fragile Comb Jelly

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Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.
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Two New Sea Stars

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In 1874 Reverend Moses Harvey of Newfoundland displayed the giant squid he bought on the side of his barn, much to the dismay of Mrs. Harvey.
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Rev. Harvey’s Giant Squid on Display

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Flower-like clusters of pink polyps make up this coral colony.
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Coral Colony

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Chrysaora melanaster is a jellyfish found in the Arctic.
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Arctic Sea Jelly

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a scan of a louse
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Walrus Lice

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Corallimorpharian
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Soft Coral Close-Up

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A smasher mantis shrimp came out from its burrow on fringing reef adjacent to US Liberty ship wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 6 meters.
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Smasher Mantis Shrimp

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