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A Florida manatee swims through a channel into a freshwater spring late in the day.
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Florida Manatee

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Acorn barnacles living on top of a crab.
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An Edible Crab Covered with Barnacles

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A photo of a red-colored sea anemone photographed in the Baltic Sea.
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Urticina Felina, a Baltic Sea Anemone

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A NASA satellite image from August 23, 2011 of Hurricane Irene, the Atlantic basin's first hurricane of 2011.
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Hurricane Irene

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Auster gets ready to study fish predators at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia.
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Auster Dives on a Rock Face

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Photo of a harlequin shrimp
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Harlequin Shrimp East of Bali, Indonesia

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White growth emerges from a deep-sea coral sample stained pink to enable ocean scientists to measure its growth rate.
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Growth Experiment

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Marine scientists photographed and measured this gorgonian coral and deep-sea shrimp just as they were collected—together.
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Deep-sea Coral and Shrimp

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After ocean scientists sort deep-sea coral samples into their different types, they measure and photograph the specimens.
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Photographing Coral Samples

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The Johnson-Sea-Link submersible returns with a specimen of Keratoisis bamboo coral inside its collection box.
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Submersible with Coral Samples

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This 200-year-old bamboo coral colony is growing on the Davidson Seamount. The skeleton has bamboo-like segments.
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Bamboo Coral

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A fan-shaped colony of red coral (Corallium sp.) provides a perch for three basket stars as they feed.
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Red Coral

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