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Beautiful crab water colors
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Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

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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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A zoomed-in image of the crown-of-thorns sea star.
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Acanthaster planci

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an oyster reef at low tide
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Oysters as a Keystone Species in the Chesapeake Bay

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This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals

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Syllid fireworms can be found mainly on the seafloor, but they switch to a planktonic form to reproduce, where the females use bioluminescent signals.
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Syllid Fireworms

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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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Colorful Christmas tree worms
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A Forest of Christmas Tree Worms

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a deep-sea submersible
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Submersible Collects Deep-Sea Corals

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The fringe of a white Christmas tree worm.
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White Christmas Tree Worm

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Scientist Martha Nizinski examines a sample of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, collected 600-m (1,969-ft) deep off the coast of the southeastern United States.
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Martha Nizinski: Hooked on Deep-Sea Corals

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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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How Sea Slugs Steal the Defenses of Their Prey

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