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Corals Get Covered: The Gulf oil spill was different from many big oil spills in history because oil spewed from a well in the deep sea instead of leaking onto the ocean's surface. GoMRI scientists have found that oil remains in the deep to this day—and
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Corals Get Covered

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Discovered in 2004 and named in 2009, Gersemia juliepackardae coral lives on seamounts in the northeast Pacific Ocean at depths of 500-2,000 m (1,640-6,562 ft).
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New Soft Coral

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Two sea lions interact amongst schools of small fish.
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Seal or Sea Lion?

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Students examine a beach at low tide.
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Seattle Aquarium Delegation

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Students in marine life costumes pose in an aquarium.
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Mystic Aquarium Delegation

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Scientist Kevin Raskoff documents organisms by building an aquarium.
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Photographing Captured Animals

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Photograph of a translucent red-orange comb jelly against a black sea.
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Red Mid-Water Comb Jelly

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This lizardfish rests on the bottom, waiting to snatch prey.
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Deepsea Lizardfish

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The “Dumbo Octopod” swims by moving its fins, pulsing its webbed arms, or pushing water through its funnel for jet propulsion.
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Grimpoteuthis, The Dumbo Octopus

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Colorful layers of a microscopic foram.
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A Colorful Foram: Globigerinoides ruber

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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Fish Feeding in Seagrass

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"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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The Trials of Ship-Bound Research

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