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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
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk
Believe it or not, this unraveling thread is from hagfish slime. Hagfish are...
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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...
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan
This colony of a lacy crust bryozoan (Membranipora membranacea) started off as just...
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Branching Red Algae
Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty
The shells of radiolarians rank among some of the treasures of the ocean, with...
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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...
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Brian Skerry's Photography Gear
Brian Skerry warily stares down his photography equipment on board the vessel...
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up
This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...
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Psychedelic Tardigrade
Tardigrades, which are usually less than 1 mm long, can be found in almost every...
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A Diatom Helix
This beautiful marine diatom Chaetoceros debilis was caught in the North Sea. Not...
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