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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...
March 2019
Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

Believe it or not, this unraveling thread is from hagfish slime. Hagfish are...
Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller...
Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

This colony of a lacy crust bryozoan (Membranipora membranacea) started off as just...
Red Algae
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Branching Red Algae

Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....
Radiolarian Shells
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

The shells of radiolarians rank among some of the treasures of the ocean, with...
'Blue Marble' satellite image of the Earth
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'Blue Marble' Image of the Earth

'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most...
Brian Skerry in a room with all his photography equipment cases.
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Brian Skerry's Photography Gear

Brian Skerry warily stares down his photography equipment on board the vessel...
Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...
Tardigrade Under the Microscope
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Psychedelic Tardigrade

Tardigrades, which are usually less than 1 mm long, can be found in almost every...
A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

This beautiful marine diatom Chaetoceros debilis was caught in the North Sea. Not...
A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
overview

Bioluminescence

You may have seen the sparkle of fireflies on a summer’s night. The fireflies...
April 2018

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