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This rose-tinted shrimplike crustacean, Thysanopoda obtusifrons, is one of the animals known as krill. Krill are a mainstay of the ocean food web, eaten by larger animals including fish, squids, and marine mammals. (Nancy Copley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Posted: February 28, 2012

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