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Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible
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Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea

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It's a pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), found in Indonesia's biodiverse Coral Triangle and one of the smallest seahorse species in the world! They can change colors like a chameleon to blend into their environment. This helps to protect them from p
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Can You Spot the Seahorse?

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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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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

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The Okeanos team comes upon an octocoral colony overgrown by zooanthid cnidarians, sea anemone-like animals, that gives it a beautiful red and orange coloring. 
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A Battle With Octocoral for Food

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A tiny yellow goby living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan
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Image Gallery: The Perfect Underwater Photo

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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A Handful of Biodiversity

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This day octopus (Octopus cyanea) has shaped itself like seagrass or some coral so hide from predators or stalk prey.
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Camouflaged Octopus Blends In

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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This brightly colored squat lobster collected in Moorea is a common find among the coral heads. Although called lobsters, this group of crustaceans is more closely related to hermit crabs than to true lobsters.
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Squat Lobster

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A screenshot from the video of a deep-sea crustacean.
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Searching for Crustaceans in the Deep Sea

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth

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Orangutan crabs are covered in thin reddish hairs, and are frequently found living in bubble coral.
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Orangutan Crabs from Komodo Island

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