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a bloom of bacteria glitter at the sea surface
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Glittering Trichodesmium

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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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microscopic organisms of different shapes
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Protists of the Atlantic

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

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Colorful layers of a microscopic foram.
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A Colorful Foram: Globigerinoides ruber

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

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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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Dinoflagellates are major producers of oxygen in the ocean (and freshwater). But some species can grow out of control, causing a red tide.
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Dinoflagellate

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

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