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

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Census researchers discovered this sea cucumber (Enypniastes sp.) in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Zooplankton Biodiversity

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This colony of <em>Rosacea</em> may look like a single jellyfish, but it is actually a large group of smaller siphonophores clustered and living together.
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Jellyfish, or Siphonophore Colony?

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Oikopleura gorskyi is a rare deep-water species of larvacean
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Deep-Water Larvacean

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A transparent ctenophore in dark water.
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A Ctenophore Feeds

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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On Biodiversity: Understanding its Meaning and Importance

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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.
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Foraminifera

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One of the&nbsp;most impressive photosynthesizers is a cyanobacterium called Prochlorococcus. It is estimated to be more abundant than any other photosynthesizer on the planet, and to be responsible for producing 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
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Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution

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

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