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Hatchetfish photographed moments after being pulled from the deep sea in the Oozeki net trawl. These small, silvery fish have large eyes to collect any sunlight that reaches the deep sea. Even in the deep, they are not immune to human impacts; the research
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Hatchetfish

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Graduate students Danielle Young from Temple University and Dannise Ruiz from Penn State preparing oil and dispersant solutions for exposure experiments with deep sea corals aboard the exploration vessel E/V Nautilus.
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Testing Impacts of Dispersants

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Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, deep-sea corals were colonized by hydroids and their branches began to break off. 
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Floc On Gulf Coral

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A marine scientist performs a genetic analysis on a sample of deep-sea coral to find out if it is a known or new species.
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Genetic Analysis of Coral

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The Johnson-Sea-Link submersible returns with a specimen of Keratoisis bamboo coral inside its collection box.
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Submersible with Coral Samples

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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

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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

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A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open.
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Mouth Agape Comb Jelly

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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

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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

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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

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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

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