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An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.
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Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes

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Cartoon t-shirts with got plankton.
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The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

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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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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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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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A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
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You Light Up My World!

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a bloom of bacteria glitter at the sea surface
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Glittering Trichodesmium

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A phronima amphipod
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Pincers that Kill

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The shell of a sea slug
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Spiny Parachutes

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