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This 200-year-old bamboo coral colony is growing on the Davidson Seamount. The skeleton has bamboo-like segments.
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Bamboo Coral

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A fan-shaped colony of red coral (Corallium sp.) provides a perch for three basket stars as they feed.
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Red Coral

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An Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) crosses a seagrass bed.
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Cuttlefish in Seagrass Bed

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Throughout their lifecycle, jellyfish take on two different body forms: medusa and polyps. Polyps can reproduce asexually by budding, while medusae spawn eggs and sperm to reproduce sexually.
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Jellyfish Lifecycle and Reproduction

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Stephanocyathus (A.) spiniger, a solitary, deep-water stony coral species, has six long spines that slow it from sinking into soft substrates.
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Solitary Deep-water Corals

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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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Lanceola clausi is a rare deep-water organism.
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Deep-Sea Amphipod

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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 bright orange anemonefish poke their heads between anemone tentacles.
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Clownfish in their Host Anemone

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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 bought a dead giant squid caught by fishermen.
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Rev. Harvey Buys a Giant Squid

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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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