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

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a graphic of a boat towing a trawl
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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

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Chuniphyes are siphonophores—colonial organisms in the same phylum as jellyfish, working together to survive.
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Ultimate Teamwork

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Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

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"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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The Trials of Ship-Bound Research

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Lichen Zones

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A comparison of an undisturbed Oculina coral reef and one that has been devastated by trawling.
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Undisturbed vs. Trawled Reef

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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Giant Squid

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A series of six images depicting the Kakishibu dyeing process. The top two images show slices of persimmons, the middle two show the brown shades of juice distilled from the fruit, and the bottom two show a swatch of fish skin being dyed brown with the juice.
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Kakishibu Dyed Fish Leather

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These shrimp-like crustaceans called Gnathophausia are incredibly hardy and only need to eat every few months.
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Intense Fasting

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The New England Seamount Chain is the longest in the North Atlantic Ocean and includes peaks of more than 30 extinct volcanoes.
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Map of New England Seamount Chain

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Superheated magma slowly leaks from a crack in the seafloor.
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Superheated Magma Underwater

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