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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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On Biodiversity: Understanding its Meaning and Importance

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Ruth Meadows examines specimens as part of her Teacher at Sea experience. NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows sorts specimens aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow as part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystem (MAR-ECO) project.
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NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows

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This colony of <em>Rosacea</em> may look like a single jellyfish, but it is actually a large group of smaller siphonophores clustered and living together.
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Jellyfish, or Siphonophore Colony?

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Marine Environments

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Scientist Kevin Raskoff processes samples of DNA
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Building a Database

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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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a grain of sand with microbes highlighted in green
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Microbial Life on a Grain of Sand

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On a seamount peak, a huge colony of brittle stars (likely Ophiacantha rosea) feeds on passing particles.
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Millions of Brittle Stars

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish&nbsp;Monacanthus hispidus&nbsp;(Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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A scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) at Isla del Coco, Costa Rica.
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Do Sharks Smell in Stereo?

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Head to Foot

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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A Handful of Biodiversity

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