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Pelagic octopus

Argonauts like this pelagic octopus, found in the ocean twilight zone, are rarely found in the wild. Only the females like this lovely lady are able to create a shell.…

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JetYak

Autonomous vehicles explore places too dangerous for humans. Here, JetYak embarks on a survey mission along the Sarqardliup glacier in Greenland. (Photo by by Fiamma Straneo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Stars and Stripes

A golden feather star raises its arms to feed. Behind, brittle stars are perched across the boulder-field. (Photo courtesy of J. R. Aronson)

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Knee-Deep

WHOI engineer Chris Basque deploys instruments for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Global Array as waves crash board the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. The array is laden with instruments which remain at…

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Sitting atop a legend

HOV Alvin pilot Valentine Wilson sits atop the research submarine in 1966, shown here in its first incarnation. After Wilson came back from a trip to the Bahamas sporting a…

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R/V Armstrong in Southern Greenland

During a recent transit through the Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland, the crew of the research vessel Neil Armstrong took advantage of calm conditions during an otherwise storm-tossed spring…

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Potato chips of the sea

Sometimes referred to as the potato chips of the sea, two pteropods (Diacria trispinosa) move through the Ocean Twilight Zone in search of food. Photo by Paul Caiger, Woods Hole…

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Macroscopic Life

They look like space stations, but actually are colonial forms of single-celled organisms called radiolarians, collected in the deep Celebes Sea in the Philippines. The white blobs are individual cells,…

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Beads that Sting

These may look like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway, but they are actually Man-o'-War tentacles that can inject toxins into any creature unlucky enough to bump into them. Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

These may look like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway, but they are actually Man-o’-War tentacles that can inject toxins into any creature unlucky enough to…

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Nature Imitating Art

From the underside, the jellyfish Atolla, looks more like a chandelier than an animal. Atolla are abundant the world over in the Ocean Twilight Zone and shallower depths. When touched or disturbed,…

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Andy Bowen at TedX

WHOI engineer Andy Bowen talks with a reporter at the recent TED2019 Conference in Vancouver about the ocean’s critical role in the health of our planet and how technology is…

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The Krill Crate

The Krill Tank

Scientists from WHOI and the University of Oregon transport a tank of juvenile krill (gray square box on small boat) to Palmer Station in Antarctica, where they will be analyzed…

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Splash in the Dark

The human-occupied submersible Alvin isn’t often recovered after dark—usually it’s on deck in time for dinner, even though the sub holds enough oxygen, food, and water for the pilot and…

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A Mountainous Task

A Mountainous Task

The Galápagos archipelago is made up of 13 major volcanic islands that occupy a submerged platform rising more than three kilometers (nearly two miles) above the seafloor. During an expedition…

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Above the Reef Flat

Above the Reef Flat

Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station steers a research vessel over Dongsha’s coral reef in the South China Sea, where former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Tom DeCarlo conducted fieldwork.…

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Hunting Zombie Microbes

Hunting Zombie Microbes

Far below the ocean floor, sediments are teeming with bizarre, zombie-like microbes. Although they’re technically alive, they grow in slow motion, and can take decades for a single cell to…

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In Praise of Invertebrates

In Praise of Invertebrates

Most of the countless animals in the ocean twilight zone do not have a backbone. Invertebrates include zooplankton and jellies and account for much of the life beyond the reach of…

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Glider Pilot

After a journey of more than two months from Miami, a team recovers a Spray glider on the continental shelf southeast of Cape Cod in June 2015. By changing its…

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Snuggles and Shellfish

Snuggles and Shellfish

After being measured and tagged by researchers during a 2007 Polar Discovery expedition in Antarctica, an adult Adelie penguin snuggles back down over its chicks to warm and feed them. In…

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Good Omen

Good Omen

“I think it was a good omen, as everything has gone smoothly so far,” said WHOI senior scientist Al Plueddemann when describing the appearance of a snowy owl on the…

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Coral in a Warming World

Coral in a Warming World

This coral’s stark white color indicates that it is stressed, probably by warming water. Most corals host a type of algae that produce food for the live coral polyps and…

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