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A pop of red in the twilight zone
This bejeweled beauty is a strawberry squid (Histioteuthis reversa), sampled from the ocean twilight zone, a mysterious stratum of the ocean between the sunlit surface layer and extending down to about 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep.
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Clindor Cacho of WHOI (middle), and Brad Issler (left) and Stephen Bell (right) from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, recover a Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap (NBST) after a […]
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Carbon Pump
This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps (genus Cyclosalpa). This kind of salp lives in sunlit surface waters, but other species migrate to and from the […]
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The Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) is infamous for its painful stinging tentacles that can extend up to 10 meters (33 feet) long down from the surface. They are used […]
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