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This bright purple sea star is a new species found by the Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems, a project of the Census of Marine Life.
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Purple Sea Star

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Marine Biologist Nancy Knowlton
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Nancy Knowlton in the Field

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A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean

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An underwater photo of coral recovering from a bleaching event.
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A Pleasant Surprise: The Recovery of Bleached Panamanian Corals

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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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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Trophic relationships in Arctic marine ecosystems

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The sea star Odontaster validus and sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri are often found living in association with one another along the Antarctic coastline, here during the Census of Marine Life.
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Sea Stars and Urchins off Antarctica

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Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

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The squidworm has 10 tentacle-like appendages on its head.
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The Squidworm - A New Species

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a close up of bacteria
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Marine Microbes

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A dark sky with each stage of the solar eclipse above neon signs.
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How Marine Life Responds When the Sky Goes Dark

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