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Jellyfish are transparent and made up of 95 percent water, so you’d think there isn’t much to them. But you’d be wrong. Jellyfish are more complex than you’d think—and one of their most fascinating parts is their stinging cells.
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How Do Jellyfish Sting?

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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In Search of the Giant Squid

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A small, transparent, shell-less sea snail in the open ocean.
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Angels of the Sea

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Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.
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Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

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Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
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Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

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A piece of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit.
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When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef

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A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
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Caribbean Hermit Crab

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Just Jelly: ecological role of gelatinous zooplankton

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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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A brittle star clings to the branches of a deep sea coral
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A Brittle Star May Be a Coral’s Best Friend

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A transparent ctenophore with two long tentacles.
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Arctic Ctenophore with Long Tentacles

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