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The Okeanos team comes upon an octocoral colony overgrown by zooanthid cnidarians, sea anemone-like animals, that gives it a beautiful red and orange coloring. 
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A Battle With Octocoral for Food

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Mah says of the spiny goniasterid sea stars, "They're very efficient and we've seen them devour the polyps inside primnoids kind of the way I just had my cookie." 
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Sea Stars Feed on Octocorals

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The Okeanos crew comes across the tiny jellyfish (Aegina citrea) that devours the tissue of octocoral feeding polyps. 
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Jellies Prey on Octocoral

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Coral scientist Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a deep-sea coral bed off the coast of Hawaii.
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Diversity of Deep-Sea Corals

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Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.
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Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery

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This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals

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This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.
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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.
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The Surprising Elegance of Midwater Sea Life

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Despite its demonic look, the vampire squid collects and eats drifting particles called "marine snow" using two long, sticky filaments.
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The Vampire Squid from Hell

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Bubbles of methane gas rise through a mussel bed in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Methane Bubbles Up From Seep

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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