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Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a squat lobster (Eumunida picta) collected at the Lophelia reefs off Cape Lookout, North Carolina.    
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Squat Lobster from Reefs of North Carolina

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Off the coast of North Carolina, Nizinski and Johnson Sea Link pilot Phil Santos descend through the water column towards the target site.
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Submersible and Deep-Sea Corals

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Image of a rapa whelk, a large marine snail retreated into its shell
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Rapa Whelk

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Inside the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason.
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Views from the ROV Jason

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The Pisces IV submersible sits on a saddle near Kingman Reef in Hawaii.
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Pisces IV Submersible

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This photograph of Gerardia sp. was taken at the Cross Seamount in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 400 m (1,312 feet).
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Gold Coral Close-up

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Shown here are several deep-sea coral species: From left to right are an unidentified purple octocoral, a small gold acanthorgorgiid octocoral, and a large colony of pink Corallium secundum
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Diverse Deep-Sea Corals

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The branches of a primnoid coral in the genus Calyptrophora provide a habitat for galathaoid crabs.
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Primnoid Coral

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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.
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Deep-Sea Coral Community

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Dr. J. Murray Roberts photographed these living polyps from the Mingulay Reef Complex off Scotland in aquaria in 2010.
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Lophelia Pertusa Coral Polyps

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This colony of Lophelia pertusa was photographed from the Mingulay Reef Complex off Scotland in 2005.
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Lophelia pertusa Colony

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A young visitor holds up his painted fish Gyotaku fish print at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Gyotaku Fish Print

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