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Image : Life and Death in the Deep Sea

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At the site near the broken wellhead, scientists also saw brittle stars that were oddly colored and in an unusual posture: tightly coiled on coral branches. (Photo courtesy of Lophelia II (NOAA/BOEMRE) and Tim Shank, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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