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Juvenile Clam with Tentacles
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Spaceship Mollusk

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Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

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Mangrove Salt Glands
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How Mangroves Deal with Saltwater

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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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Fireworm Setae
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Fireworm Bristles

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Dover Sole Skin
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Close-Up of Dover Sole Skin

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Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult features: an eye and legs.
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Lobster Egg

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This tentacle belongs to a blue button. While it has a central “float” with streaming tentacles like typical jellyfish, the blue button is a colony of many small hydroid animals.
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Blue Button Tentacle

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Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

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A live coral polyp with turquoise tissue and brown tentacles closes its mouth (the slit at the center of the radiating ribs) tight.
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Closed-Mouth Coral

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Red Algae
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Branching Red Algae

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Radiolarian Shells
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

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