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| With a fearsome grin fit
for a movie monster, this viperfish is a real-life predator
that lurks in one of the world's most remote locations. |
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| Despite its delicate,
decorated appearance, this jewel squid was found 1,650
feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. |
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| An ironic strategy for
survival, a tiny shrimplike creature called an amphipod
shows everything it has, inside and out, in an attempt
to disappear. |
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| Deep sea animals, such
as the baby isopod Ceratoserolis above, have been discovered
during expeditions off Antarctica. |
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| This glass sponge was
one of 76 sponge species found in the seas off Antarctica.
17 species of had never been found before |
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| This unusually shaped
organism, a male Munna, was snagged during a deep-sea
expedition in the waters around Antarctic. |
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| The Antarctic Benthic
Deep-Sea Biodiversity Project, found more than 700 new
species during expeditions in 2002 and 2005. |
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| The blind, white, crablike
creature dubbed the "yeti crab" was just one of many new
sea creatures discovered this year. |
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| The deepest survey took
place more than three miles down in the North Atlantic.
They found microscopic animals called zooplankton. |
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| Isopod crustaceans are
rare species. Researchers are trying to sort out which
is which can be like finding needles in a haystack. |
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| The scientists were documenting
life on undersea mountains off northeast Australia when
they found this specimen |
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| This heart-shaped jellyfish
called a comb jelly was among thousands of tiny creatures
captured in an expedition in April. |
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| This tiny, iridescent
marine animal, called a zooplankton, is one of a dozen
new species identified by scientists during the expedition. |
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| This tiny sea snail, or
pteropod that resembles a Roman soldier's helmet. It was
brought up from the deep near the Bermuda Triangle. |
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| The Atlanta peroni may
be a bellwether of global warming among other things and
is known to elevate the acidity of deep oceans. |
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| This baby octopus was
probably using its large black eyes to search for a meal
when it was snared by scientists last month. |
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