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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

The ocean is so big that it can be easy to forget the microscopic beauty of the...
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 10:34
Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:47
A team of scientists explore the Arctic ocean.
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Under Arctic Ice

Hidden beneath Arctic ice is a world few have ever seen. Take the icy plunge with a...
Tue, 01/04/2011 - 14:48
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...
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...
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...

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