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Soft Coral Close-Up

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Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

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Harbor seal in a kelp forest near Cortes Bank, near San Diego California.
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Harbor Seal in a Kelp Forest

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A crab with blue coloration
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Toxic!

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An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.
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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

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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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A purple jellyfish
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Stinging Beauty

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A cuttlefish eye
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Dazzling Eyes

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A reddish-orange nudibranch.
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A Baltic Sea Nudibranch

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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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This nudibranch is making a comeback to a location it hasn't been to in years along the California coast. First discovered off the coast of Southern California in 1902, Felimare californiensis was thought to be extinct in the region sin
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The Comeback Sea Slug

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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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