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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.
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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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Tropical hatchetfish, like the one shown in this X-ray photograph, live in the dark depths of the ocean. Like many other deep-sea fishes, they have large eyes and bioluminescent spots on their bellies.
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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

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The first known filter feeder is a large shrimp-like creature called Tamisiocaris borealis. The feather-like structures on its head were used to rake plankton from the sea.
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The First Filter Feeder

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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Siphonophores

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A small giant clam -- yes, that's it's real name -- in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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A leatherback sea turtle crawls across the sand at the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste site in Costa Rica.
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Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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The fluorescent shortnose greeneye fish.
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A Shortnose Greeneye Fish Aglow

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Photo collage of six species of invertebrates.
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Invertebrates from the Gulf of Mexico

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Phoenix’s entanglement badly injured her right lip, leaving a distinctive scar from that ordeal.
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Beware of Fishing Gear

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This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Deep Sea Copepod

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Caribbean reef sharks swim over a coral reef in the Bahamas.
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Caribbean Reef Shark

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