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A many-armed, orange starfish.
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A Filter-Feeding Starfish

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Diagram showing gills on a crab absorbing nutrients
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Crab Gills Absorb Nutrients

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Like snails, clams, and even slugs, giant squids are all mollusks, with soft, fleshy bodies.
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Squid Relatives

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
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Reef Monitoring Structure

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The sea star Odontaster validus and sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri are often found living in association with one another along the Antarctic coastline, here during the Census of Marine Life.
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Sea Stars and Urchins off Antarctica

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Scientists discovered this 1.5-m (5-ft) tall yellow bamboo coral in 2007 off the coast of Hawaii in 1,459 m (4,787 ft) of water.
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New Bamboo Coral Discovery

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Beautiful crab water colors
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Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

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This jewel squid (Histioteuthis bonnellii) lives above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Jewel Squid

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This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.
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Blind Lobster

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A tongue-like organ called the radula rams food down the giant squid's throat.
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Giant Squid Beak and Radula

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Illustration of a giant squid versus a merman.
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From Mermen to Architeuthis, Our Fascination with the Giant Squid

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The staghorn coral is listed as Threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. It is one of 22 coral species listed.
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Staghorn Coral

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