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A scientist in a white lab coat stands in laboratory holding a jar of marine specimens.
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Scientist and his Wet Specimens

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A fan-shaped colony of red coral (Corallium sp.) provides a perch for three basket stars as they feed.
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Red Coral

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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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An archaeologist arranges a deep-sea core.
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Sediment Cores

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The “Dumbo Octopod” swims by moving its fins, pulsing its webbed arms, or pushing water through its funnel for jet propulsion.
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Grimpoteuthis, The Dumbo Octopus

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The amphipod Eusirus holmii inhabits sea ice, the water column and the sea floor
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Arctic Amphipod

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: Black corals often resemble bushes or trees. Their living tissue can be one of several colors. It’s the skeleton that is black.
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Black Corals

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A red Scypholanceola aestiva stares at the screen with large orange eyes.
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Scypholanceola aestiva

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The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry was used in the Gulf of Mexico directly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 to map oil plumes and to search for hard bottom on the sea floor.
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AUV Sentry

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Photograph of a translucent red-orange comb jelly against a black sea.
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Red Mid-Water Comb Jelly

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A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing gear floats at the surface in the Bay of Fundy.
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Wounded North Atlantic Right Whale

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Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
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Rough Going for Orange Roughy

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