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Photograph of an orange many-armed sea star on an erect delicately-branched coral in a dark sea.
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Sea Star on Coral at Seamount

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A white coral (Corallium sp.) and two vase sponges (left) grow on an Atlantic Ocean seamount.
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Balanus Seamount

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A variety of corals cling to Manning Seamount, just off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Manning Seamount Deep Coral Community

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Notice the pink tentacles, which “recliners” used to filter feed.
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Recliner Rudists

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Three hundred year old pen and ink drawing of a "strange and large" bat.
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New Guinea Bat

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As soon as Dampier set foot in Australia, he began making observations and collecting specimens of plants, which he carefully pressed between the pages of books to be studied by the “ingenious” and “curious” upon his return to England. As Dampier conducted his investigations, his artist made detailed sketches like these.
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Australian Plants

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Marine Ecologist Jeremy Jackson
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Marine Ecologist Jeremy Jackson Discusses Oil Spills

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An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) being launched from the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in Gulf of Mexico

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Big Red Deep Sea Jellyfish
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Big Red Jellyfish

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Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.
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Brown Grass Shrimp

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The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

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Laysan albatross with a chick in a volcano looking nest on the ground made of earth.
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Laysan Albatross with a Chick

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