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The Deep Sea
Below the ocean’s surface is a mysterious world that accounts for over 95 percent......![Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Photo-3-full_0.jpg.webp?itok=7XJQo0PB)
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Giant Squid
Giant squid live up to their name: the largest giant squid ever recorded by......![A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Sub151_w.jpg.webp?itok=0xln7482)
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DROP: The Deep Reef Observation Project
The Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP) is a Smithsonian research program...![A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2_09_P08_G10_Abraliabigger.jpg.webp?itok=-_l8Wwm4)
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Bioluminescence
You may have seen the sparkle of fireflies on a summer’s night. The fireflies......![Coral scientist Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a deep-sea coral bed off the coast of Hawaii.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/deep_sea_coral_community_full.jpg.webp?itok=iVxQ0pym)
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Diversity of Deep-Sea Corals
Sample the surprising diversity of deep-sea corals. See some of the ways they......![After ocean scientists sort deep-sea coral samples into their different types, they measure and photograph the specimens.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/photographing_specimens_full.jpg.webp?itok=2kHGgZkN)
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Studying Deep-Sea Corals
What happens to deep-sea coral samples after they are collected? In this image......![Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2_09-P-08-G-01-full_1.jpg.webp?itok=01D05kh_)
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Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery
Bioluminescence is one of the more captivating adaptations that have evolved in......![This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/new-bamboo_coral_full.jpg.webp?itok=odWJIRlK)
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals
It's a new age of discovery for scientists studying deep-sea corals. In this image......![A variety of corals cling to Manning Seamount, just off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2_08-M-02-G-01-040415084532JM_1.jpg.webp?itok=UXrNDtep)
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Seamounts, A Deep-Sea Habitat
Thousands of seamounts—most of them undersea volcanoes—tower above the muddy......![This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/lobstergrab_full_0.jpg.webp?itok=4koJ_nDP)
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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow
Deep sea animals have to live in a very cold, dark, and high-pressure environment......![A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/sea_fan_and_coral.jpg.webp?itok=FXPNynTR)
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep
On the deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, ecosystems made up of fish, corals,...![A Stealthy Swimmer Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Aegina_D594d11-9.jpeg.webp?itok=yYN7s-zf)
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