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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World
The ocean is so big that it can be easy to forget the microscopic beauty of the...
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Closed-Mouth Coral
A live coral polyp with turquoise tissue and brown tentacles closes its mouth (the...
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Blue Button Tentacle
This tentacle belongs to a blue button (Porpita porpita), an animal that looks like...
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Lobster Egg
Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult...
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle
Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller...
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A Diatom Helix
This beautiful marine diatom Chaetoceros debilis was caught in the North Sea. Not...
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A Snail's Rainbow Radula
This abstract image is a close-up of the tiny teeth that cover the radula of a...
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Soft Coral Close-Up
These neon balloons weren't blown up for a party: they are the colorful tentacles...
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Psychedelic Tardigrade
Tardigrades, which are usually less than 1 mm long, can be found in almost every...
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Sparkling Sponge Spicules
These sparkling sponge spicules are microscopic needle-like structures that many...
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Sea Gooseberry Larva
These beautiful wisps are the hair-like cilia of a sea gooseberry larva, a common...
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