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A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Collaborator Research

Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:02
A variety of corals cling to Manning Seamount, just off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Seamounts, A Deep-Sea Habitat

Thousands of seamounts—most of them undersea volcanoes—tower above the muddy...
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 14:41
This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.
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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

Deep sea animals have to live in a very cold, dark, and high-pressure environment...
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 15:08
A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

On the deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, ecosystems made up of fish, corals, sea...
Tue, 01/06/2015 - 13:37
Photographer Brian Skerry walks knee deep in a mangrove in the Bahamas.
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Life in the Field as an Underwater Photographer

Brian Skerry, an award winning photographer for National Geographic, explores the...
Tue, 05/29/2012 - 13:19
A tiny yellow goby living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan
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Image Gallery: The Perfect Underwater Photo

For nearly 35 years, National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry has been...
Mon, 12/19/2011 - 16:13
An oceanic whitetip shark swims near a biologist in the Bahamas.
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Image Gallery: Swimming with Sharks

For nearly 30 years, National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry has been...
Thu, 09/29/2011 - 14:03

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