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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

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Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Surveying Life On Sea Turtles

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Two clams, a mussel, an oyster, on a bed of algae
Article

Shellfish for Dinner: More than just Clams and Oysters

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a small spikey crab sits on a black background
Article

Tiny Crab Gains a Big Audience

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a crab next to a coral den
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Crabs Make Coral Castles

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Red and white riftia worms living in a deep-sea vent.
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Riftia Worms: One Species at a Time

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This sea cucumber, collected at 830 feet, hosts a pearl fish, which lives in its anus!
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Sea Cucumber in Curaçao

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A screenshot from video showing researchers collecting snapping shrimp off Moorea.
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Slurping Shrimp near Moorea

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Two nautiluses in the open ocean off the coast of Palau.
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A Couple of Nautiluses

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

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