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A painted top shell sits in the water of low tide.
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Painted Top Shell

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Limpets leave a zigzag trail on rocks as they move along scraping off algae and seaweed with their strong teeth.
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Limpet Teeth Marks

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A SCUBAnaut "plants" corals on hard substrates.
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SCUBAnauts Planting Corals

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A yellow polychaete worm.
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Alciopid

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A red and orange tomopterid with a black background.
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Tomopterid

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Jellyfish illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Semaeostome Jellyfish

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Sea squire illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Squirts

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Illustrations of radiolarians from Ernst Haeckel.
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Radiolarians

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Illustration of copepods from Ernst Haeckel.
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Copepods

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Sea anemone illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Anemones

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Starfish—marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata—are famous for their ability to shed limbs as a means of defense and then regenerate the sacrificed part.
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Haeckel Starfish

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Haeckel discovered a species of rhizostome jellyfish in Bellagemma, Ceylon, in December 1881. Its form so impressed him that he used it as a model for ceiling decorations in his Villa Medusa home in Jena.
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Rhizostome Jellyfish

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