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Despite the cold and dark environment, soft-bodied animals like anemones abound under the ice in the Antarctic.
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Anemone in Cold Antarctic Water

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A fox explores a tide pool.
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Fox at the Tide Pools

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A healthy, deep sea octocoral and their brittle star partners
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Brittle stars and their best friends the octocorals

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Basking shark
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Basking Shark

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A stormy sea lashes the village of Shismaref, Alaska, where the coastline has eroded 30–90 m (100–300 ft) in the past 30 years.
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Shismaref, Alaska

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Building a Better Dispersant: When we wash dishes at home, we use dish soap to break up and wash away any oil that is stuck to our plates and utensils. Similarly, stronger soap-like chemicals called dispersants can be used to break up oil spills, like thos
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Building a Better Dispersant

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A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.
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Antarctic Log 2.5

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A cross-section of a nautilus shell is not only beautiful, it also is a great example of the chambered cephalopod shell. The projections splitting each chamber are the siphuncle tubes that allow gas and liquid to be transferred from chamber to chamber. 
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Chambered Shells

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Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus all have differently shaped pupils— an octopus has a rectangular pupil.
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Octopus Eyes

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Acorn barnacles living on top of a crab.
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An Edible Crab Covered with Barnacles

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A fan-shaped colony of red coral (Corallium sp.) provides a perch for three basket stars as they feed.
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Red Coral

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The pink strands of this coral harbor a variety of organisms. Sea whips are gorgonian corals, with flexible skeletons.
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Sea Whip Coral

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