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![a heat map showing a thick band from Africa, across the northern coast of South America and into the Gulf of Mexico](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/sargassum_tamo_2018_1440.png.webp?itok=_44TTvB7)
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The Sargassum Belt
The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in July 2018. Scientists used satellite imagery......![Sargassum forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/DriftingBall2small.jpg.webp?itok=M5z6fnCd)
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Too Much of a Good Thing—the Atlantic Sargassum Belt
There is a sea in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where floating rafts of seaweed......
June 2022
![Seagrasses don't just provide shelter for free-swimming animals, but also are a habitat for non-moving organisms, such as these sea anemones.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/anemone-seagrass.jpg.webp?itok=dZ2s9MPT)
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Anemone on Seagrass Blade
Seagrasses don't just provide shelter for free-swimming animals, but also are a......![An Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) crosses a seagrass bed.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/cuttlefish-seagrasses.jpg.webp?itok=ExvOyZNg)
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Cuttlefish in Seagrass Bed
Squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, such as this Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia......![The fins of the frogfish are perfect for creeping around in the algae and stalking unsuspecting prey.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Histrio1small.jpg.webp?itok=j1yuVMPf)
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Frogfish Histrio histrio
The Sargassum frogfish Histrio histrio (Antennariidae) is a small but......![Adult Swimming Crab A juvenile swimming crab sits on a bed of sargassum seaweed.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Portunus2small.jpg.webp?itok=dQaaiKCr)
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Adult Swimming Crab
When they get larger, Portunus sayi are formidable predators, quick to consume any......![The Sargassum frogfish is a small but voracious predator - it can ingest animals up to it’s own size!](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Histrio2small.jpg.webp?itok=r4rb3LIB)
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Sargassum Frogfish
The sargassum frogfish Histrio histrio (Antennariidae) is a small but......![Winner of the ‘best camoflauge’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica is betrayed only by motion.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Scyllaea2small.jpg.webp?itok=7u96O3qR)
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Seaslug Camouflages in Seaweed
Winner of the ‘best camouflage’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica......![Brown Grass Shrimp Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Leander2.jpg.webp?itok=4tx7yovr)
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Brown Grass Shrimp
Another common species of sargassum shrimp, Leander......![This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Latreutes.jpg.webp?itok=nH3nz7aF)
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Shrimp hides in the sargassum
One of the most common inhabitants of the sargassum community, the shrimp...![Sargassum forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/DriftingBall2small.jpg.webp?itok=tiXFvWZR)
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