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This map shows where some of the most significant species of deep-sea corals are located.
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Deep-Sea Corals Worldwide

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“Once in a while, manta rays appear in great numbers in a small bay in the Baa Atoll. The concentration of plankton must be very high in this particular bay, because up to 200 manta rays have been seen here at one time. It can be difficult to capture a n
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Manta Rays, Baa Atoll, Hanifaru Bay, Maldives

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Up close look at thin tentacles of a jellyfish.
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Jellyfish Tentacles Close Up

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Flame shells live in enormous colonies, but hidden in nests.
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Orange-Tentacled Flame Shell

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The white, black and yellow patterns of this eel look like snowflakes.
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Snowflake Moray Eel

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Sea Turtle
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Green Sea Turtle

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Illustration of the extinct ammonite, related to the modern squid.
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Ammonite

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Dr. Stephen Cairns, a Smithsonian research zoologist, studies deep-water corals.
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Dr. Stephen Cairns

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A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing gear floats at the surface in the Bay of Fundy.
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Wounded North Atlantic Right Whale

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A pile of bycatch species.
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Bycatch: The Cost of Catching What You Don’t Want

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Only 2,000 individuals of the endangered short-tailed albatross remain after the species was hunted for its feathers in the 1940s.
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Short-tailed Albatross

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This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria), a type of marine crustacean, is surrounded by her young inside the hollowed out barrel-shaped body cavity of a salp.
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Extreme Parenting

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