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This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.
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Purple Sea Urchin

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This magnified photo provides a close-up look at copepods—tiny crustaceans that right whales feed on.
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Copepods: Right Whale Food

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Dr. Clyde Roper (rear) and museum specialist Mike Sweeny examine a giant squid specimen.
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Studying Giant Squid

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Circular scars from a giant squid sucker on sperm whale skin.
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Giant Squid Sucker Marks

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What is coral? The answer is coral is an animal. This cutaway diagram of a coral polyp shows the location of its photosynthetic algae, or zooxanthellae, which coral needs to survive.
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What Is Coral? A Coral Polyp and Zooxanthellae

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A red and white colored bristle worm swims in the water column.
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A Striped Deep Sea Worm

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White abalone
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White Abalone In Danger

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A longshoreman standing in front of a large pile of oyster shells on waterfront pier in Atlantic City in 1910.
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Counting Mountains of Oysters

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Small orange brittlestars on the coast of the Atlantic.
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An Invasive Brittlestar

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New deep sea expeditions reveal new species underwater.
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New Jelly Species: 'Bathykorus bouilloni'

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This male giant squid is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Male Giant Squid

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Hermit crabs, like this one collected in Moorea, usually protect their soft, vulnerable abdomens from predators by reusing empty snail shells. This specimen shows the crab without its customary borrowed shelter.
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Hermit Crab Without a Shell

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