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Screenshot from "Census of Marine Life" video showing an upside down pink-colored jellyfish.
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Census of Marine Life Video Release

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The robotic arm of the ROV Quest finds life at an undersea vent.
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Deep Ocean Census of Marine Life

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Screenshot from Census of Marine Life video of the bottom of a red-colored octopus in dark water.
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Creature Feature from the Census of Marine Life

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Screenshot from "A Mosaic of Ocean Habitats" video of a tentacled jellyfish seen from the bottom underwater.
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A Mosaic of Ocean Habitats: A Video by National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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I, Robot, Can Do That

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A red and white colored bristle worm swims in the water column.
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Five Questions with Brigitte Ebbe, Polychaete Pundit

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This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

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Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.
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What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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as sea turtle at the surface
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Exploring Ocean Life with an Underwater Vehicle

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

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This radio device is used to track North Atlantic right whales. Suction cups hold the device to a whale's back, where it records data such as depth, water, temperature, and underwater sounds.
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Whale Tracking Device

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