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A Pontoh pygmy seahorse
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How Many Seahorse Species?

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It's a pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), found in Indonesia's biodiverse Coral Triangle and one of the smallest seahorse species in the world! They can change colors like a chameleon to blend into their environment. This helps to protect them from p
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Can You Spot the Seahorse?

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Spiral-tufted bryozoan
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A Bryozoan's Medical Endosymbiont

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A transparent amphipod looks a bit like a lobster, surrounded by white eggs.
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Amphipod: Salp Invader

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A sea butterfly, or sea snail, swims in the open ocean.
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A Swimming Snail

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A tan sea urchin from the deep seas of Curacao.
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Tan Sea Urchin

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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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“The largest land migration of any animal on Earth, as many as 120 million crabs carpet the island in red as they move from the rain forest to the coast.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Stephen Belcher.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS-1D
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Red Crab Migration, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

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Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

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The suckers of this red octopod flash on and off.
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Glowing Sucker Octopus

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In this photo of a shallow coral reef in the Pacific there are three species of forams. Their colors come from the symbiotic algae that live inside the foram shells.
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Shallow Coral Reef Foraminifers

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A brittled star clings to damaged deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico
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Brittle Star Clings to Damaged Deep-sea Corals

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