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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Undersea Geologic Features: Bathymetry

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Mapping the Ocean Floor

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The small larvae of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) settle and grow on the crustose coralline algae species Hydrolithon boergesenii.
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Coral Larvae Settling

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Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.
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Coral Scientist Brendan Roark: On an Urgent Mission

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a piece of coral with white spots from infection
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Coral White Pox

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Screenshot from "Deep Reef Observation Project Video" showing two researchers looking out a window of a submersible.
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Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP) Video

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Scientists recently discovered the Christmas tree coral (Antipathes dendrochristos) off the southern California coast.
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New Christmas Tree Coral

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Nuclear bomb in Bikini Atoll
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Naturally Resilient

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The People's Reef--Part of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
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The People's Reef

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This piece of pocillopora, or cauliflower coral, would normally have a rigid outer skeleton, but researchers dissolved it to expose the coral’s tissue and take a sample for DNA analysis.
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Cauliflower Coral - Pocillopora

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