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A screenshot from video showing three orcas swimming.
Video

Killer Whale: Orca

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
Overview

Bioluminescence

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Dover Sole Skin
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Close-Up of Dover Sole Skin

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
Lesson Plan

Light at the Bottom of the Deep Dark Ocean

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
Lesson Plan

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

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This halimeda crab’s disguise did not fool researchers in Moorea where it was collected.
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Halimeda Crab

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A blue-ringed octopus
Article

How Octopuses and Squids Change Color

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This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
Slideshow

A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum Slideshow

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (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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Juvenile plane-head filefish

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Photograph of a transparent comb jelly against a dark sea.
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Bioluminescent Comb Jelly

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This crab was collected on a NOAA/MAR-ECO cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 2009.
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Spiny Deepsea King Crab

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Giant eyes spot prey. Huge claws grab the prey, and a tiny mouth rips it to shreds.
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Phronima

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