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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

June 2011

Graph of magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes from 1900- April 2011.

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Graph of magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes from 1900- April 2011

April 2011

Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.These photos portray baby albatrosses, which are fed the plastic by their parents. A chick can have an ounce of plastic in its belly and remain healthy; the dead ch

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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 2

April 2013

A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open.

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Mouth Agape Comb Jelly

August 2015

Comb jellies (such as this Bolinopsis species) are named for their combs: the rows of cilia lining their bodies that propel them through the ocean.

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Ctenophore Combs - Close Up

October 2015

The mandarinfish lives in western Pacific tropical coral reef ecosystems and lacks the scales that are typically seen on bony fish.

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Mandarinfish Duo

October 2015

Seahorses are hitchhikers. They can travel long distances across the ocean—farther than they can swim—by attaching themselves to floating seaweed and debris.

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Hitchhiking Seahorses

January 2018

Stephanocyathus (A.) spiniger, a solitary, deep-water stony coral species, has six long spines that slow it from sinking into soft substrates.

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Solitary Deep-water Corals

October 2012

Male copepods are distinctly different from female copepods.

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Male Copepod

January 2011

The midwater scyphomedusa Atolla tenella, as seen under a microscope.

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Midwater Sea Jelly

January 2011

Comb jellies have fragile bodies and are difficult to capture.

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Fragile Comb Jelly

January 2011

Sea lion with data collector on back.

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Sea lion with data collector on back

March 2010