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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...
Fireworm Setae
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Fireworm Bristles

No, this isn't a bundle of paintbrushes: you're looking at a fireworm...
Tiny sponge spicules.
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Sparkling Sponge Spicules

These sparkling sponge spicules are microscopic needle-like structures that many...
Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore.
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Floating Antarctic Comb Jelly

Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore. The rainbow...
The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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Map of the Ross Sea

The Ross Sea, a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean...
Beautiful crab water colors
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Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

These watercolor sketches of Trapezia crabs were drawn by Frederick Bayer, a former...
a light painted image of a red and white squid
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Light Painting of a Jellyfish

What does a bioluminescent creature that lives more than 2 miles below the surface...
A photo of a tern's silhouette against an orange sky.
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Common Tern Silhouette, Nickerson Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

“A tern colony resides here for the better part of the summer, raising their...
paleobiology field equipment for excavating a fossil whale in central america
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Equipment for a Fossil Excavation

Paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
Jellies in the Class Hydrozoa are transparent and easily overlooked.
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Transparent sea jelly

Many jellyfish in the class Hydrozoa, such as this hydromedusa Aglantha digitale,...
“The largest land migration of any animal on Earth, as many as 120 million crabs carpet the island in red as they move from the rain forest to the coast.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Stephen Belcher.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot:   Canon EOS-1D
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Red Crab Migration, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

“The largest land migration of any animal on Earth, as many as 120 million crabs...
Crochet Jellyfish from the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
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Crochet Jellyfish

Corals are just one of the many marine life forms that can be modeled in crochet....

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