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a large salmon colored orb with tiny fluorescent green and blue orbs covering it
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Microbes Feast on Oil

An epifluorescence microphotograph of a bacterial community feasting on an oil...
a colored micrograph of microbes
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Silicibacter

This Silicibacter is a type of marine bacteria that lives on a specific host...
a grain of sand with microbes highlighted in green
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Microbial Life on a Grain of Sand

This image shows the microbial colonization of a sand grain. The grain’s surface...
a close up of bacteria
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Vibrio

Vibrio, a genus of rod-shaped bacteria that live in the ocean. ...
purple bacteria
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Cholera

Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria. ...
glowing dots indicate viruses
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Glowing Phages

A sample of cyanophages glow from a stain in this magnified image. ...
a single celled organism
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Tiny Ciliate

This Blepharisma japonicum is a single-celled protist called a ciliate, a...
a string of cyanobacteria
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Cyanobacteria

This blue-green microbe called a cyanobacterium was likely the first photosynthetic...
Coral Sand
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Coral Sand Under a Microscope

Coral sand is aptly named: it's sand made up of tiny bits of coral and other ocean...
Cancer cells treated with discodermolide, a chemical from a sponge found on deep-sea coral reefs.
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Treated Cancer Cells

These cancer cells have been treated with discodermolide, a chemical obtained from...
Juvenile Clam with Tentacles
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Spaceship Mollusk

No, this is not an alien spaceship from another world—it is a baby file clam...
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...

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