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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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Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.
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How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Jelly Critters: Gelatinous zooplankton

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Ari Friedlaender, a research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab, tags a blue whale.
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Acrobatic Blue Whales Do the Twist While Feeding

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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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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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An adult giant squid battles its only known predator - a sperm whale.
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Battle with a Sperm Whale

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Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Corals and Coral Reefs

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a scan of a louse
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Walrus Lice

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A cuttlefish eye
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Dazzling Eyes

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Scientists discovered this 1.5-m (5-ft) tall yellow bamboo coral in 2007 off the coast of Hawaii in 1,459 m (4,787 ft) of water.
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New Bamboo Coral Discovery

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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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