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Vacuumed up from its habitat a mile down in the ocean, the red paper lantern jelly may not look like much. Mostly water, it’s so fragile that once brought to the surface it’s reduced to a tattered blob in a jar. But this unassuming jellyfish has lessons for scientists. It’s teaching researchers in Japan how intricately life is connected down in the ocean’s deep, dark depths—and how the fate of this small red lantern sheds light on the fragility of life close to home.
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 10 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 26 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 20 seconds, Shot includes Pomacanthus semicirculatus (Semicircle angelfish)
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Hydra. One of the freshwater coelenterates (metazoa), this species has symbiotic green algae. Dark ground illumination.
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Honduras
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Davenport, California, USA
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Parawrightia robusta colony growing over sponge and sea-weedFrom Warren 1907
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Bougainvillia superciliaris Ag..
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Eudendrium dispar Ag. B.Hydranth, enlarged.
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Ectopleura ochracea A. Ag. A.Lateral view. B.Aboral view.
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Hybocodon prolifer Ag..
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Millepora alcicornis Linn. Variety with Flabellate Fronds. Height of Specimen, 28.5 cm..
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Tubularia crocea (Ag.) A., Cluster of gonophores.
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Gemmaria cladophora A. Ag..
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Eudendrium carneum Clarke.
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Stephen D. Cairns, Alberto Lindner
Zookeys
Figure 5.Color figures of skeleton of various Alaskan stylasterids: A Errinopora fisheri B, G–I Errinopora nanneca C, F Errinopora undulata, D Errinopora disticha E Errinopora zarhyncha. A holotype, USNM 1123526 B holotype, USNM 42875 C holotype, USNM 112327 D holotype, USNM 1123524 E holotype, USNM 42874 F lateral view of a large paratype, USNM 1123528 G lamellate colony with digitate distal branches, USNM 1123462 H lamellate colony, USNM 44070 I intermediate form between lamellate and digitate, USNM 1123510.
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Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt
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This is another one of things that are pretty common to seasoned divers but pretty awesome to me. Can you believe they're hydroids?!
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Tvarminne, Uusimaa, Finland
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South Sinai, Egypt
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Collected from Puget Sound sediments and photographed by the Washington State Department of Ecologys Marine Sediment Monitoring Team. For more information about this teams work visit:
www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/psamp/index.htm.