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Cystisoma (a type of hyperiid crustacean) has one huge pair of eyes.

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Giant Eyes

March 2016

Corolla moves through the water by flapping a wing plate nearly twice the size of its gelatinous shell, giving it the nickname “sea butterfly”.

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Sea Butterfly

March 2016

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Loro del Mar

March 2018

A brightly colored parrotfish swims over a field of seagrass.

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Parrots of the Sea

March 2018

Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.

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A Stealthy Swimmer

March 2016

An Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (AMRS) placed on a reef in Bali.

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Biodiversity in Bali

March 2016

Image of many colorful ocean species with a white background.

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Biocubes Promo Image

February 2016

Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.

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Seagrass Meadow

January 2016

Field experiments conducted by the Zostera Experimental Network (ZEN) explored seagrass biodiversity.

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ZEN Research

January 2016

Seagrasses, like this widgeongrass (Ruppia maritima), produce seeds underwater that can travel long distances.

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Seagrass Seed

January 2016

Seagrass species come in many different shapes and sizes, as illustrated by this conceptual diagram of some common seagrass species.

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Seagrass Diversity

January 2016

Algae or "seaweeds" (left) differ from seagrasses (right) in several ways.

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Algae vs Seagrass

March 2018