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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

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Illustration of copepods from Ernst Haeckel.
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Copepods

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A golden bass with sand in the background.
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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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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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Scientists discovered this 1.5-m (5-ft) tall yellow bamboo coral in 2007 off the coast of Hawaii in 1,459 m (4,787 ft) of water.
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New Bamboo Coral Discovery

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Lights attached to this deep-sea camera system enable scientists to capture detailed images of deep-sea corals in otherwise dark water.
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Deep-Sea Camera

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Photo of coral polyp, with a single bleach polyp.
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Corals Threatened by Acid Seas

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A school of Hawaiian squirrelfish.
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A School of Hawaiian Squirrelfish

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Flame shells live in enormous colonies, but hidden in nests.
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Orange-Tentacled Flame Shell

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Acidic waters are also able to completely dissolve coral skeletons.
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Dissolving Coral Skeleton in Acidic Waters

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Students in marine life costumes pose in an aquarium.
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Mystic Aquarium Delegation

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