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Illustration of colorful nudibranchs from Ernst Haeckel.
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Art Forms in Nature: Marine Species From Ernst Haeckel

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth

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Like other cephalopods, the common cuttlefish (Sepia officials Linnaeus, 1758) possesses serious brain power.
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So You Think You're Smarter Than a Cephalopod?

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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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Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
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Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Giant Squid

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Chrysaora melanaster is a jellyfish found in the Arctic.
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Jellyfish and Comb Jellies

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A Cirraturlid worm swims in the open ocean.
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Why I Love Polychaetes

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A close-up image of deep-sea fish Argyropelecus aculeatus
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15 Creatures in the Gulf of Mexico that are Stranger Than Fiction

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Two octopuses sitting underwater highlight the different textures the animals can take on.
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Octopuses, Squids, and Relatives

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

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