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Screenshot from video showing a close-up image of a plankton.
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The Secret Life of Plankton

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Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

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Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

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A side-view of a translucent phronima with a large red eye.
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Phronima Alien

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A translucent, female hyperiid surrounded by white young in a barrel-shaped body cavity.
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Phronima Female and Young

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Two small, translucent hyperiids with very large eyes.
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Paraphromina

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A side-view of translucent hyperiid with a black background.
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Cystisoma

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A red Scypholanceola aestiva stares at the screen with large orange eyes.
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Scypholanceola aestiva

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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

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Radiolarian Shells
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

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Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

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