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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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An albatross soars over the ocean.
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Is It Love? Why Some Ocean Animals (Sort Of) Mate For Life

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“Upon returning from the reef after a night dive, I swam toward a bright reflection and came eye-to-eye with this beautiful, curious squid.” -- Nature's Best photographer Charles Viggers.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Nikon D700; 105mm ƒ/2.8 lens
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Stunning Squid Pictures

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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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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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A zoomed-in image of the crown-of-thorns sea star.
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A Plague of Sea Stars

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Boats docked in a Chesapeake Bay harbor
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Rapa Whelks: Invaders of the Chesapeake Bay

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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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an oyster shell on a beach
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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Colorful corals and brittlestars on Manning Seamount off the New England coast.
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Seamounts: Underwater Oases

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the interior of an oyster shell with a pearl
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How Oysters Create the Ocean’s Gems

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A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
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You Light Up My World!

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