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Describing New Deep-Sea Corals and Sponges

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Focus on Farmer Fish

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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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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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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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Scientists discovered this 1.5-m (5-ft) tall yellow bamboo coral in 2007 off the coast of Hawaii in 1,459 m (4,787 ft) of water.
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New Bamboo Coral Discovery

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Call to Arms

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Coral Sand
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Coral Sand Under a Microscope

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This orange boring sponge (Cliona varians) overgrows several coral species at Panama's Smithsonian Tropical Studies Institute.
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Boring Sponge on Coral

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A brown-colored deep-sea coral sits on the deep ocean floor and is covered with brown oil floc.
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Anemone On Deep Sea Coral

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Close up image of dwarf cup coral polyps.
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Dwarf Cup Coral

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Rock Eaters of the Gulf of Alaska

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