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Shortlisted for Neil Gaiman’s February Tale from Calendar of Tales

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Though it has common names, such as the “by-the-wind sailor” and “purple sail,” this is one of the rare species that is also often referred to by its scientific name: Velella velella.
— Read more here.

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Sea apple is a common name for the colorful and somewhat round sea cucumbers of the genera Paracucumaria and Pseudocolochirus, found primarily in Indo-Pacific waters. Sea apples are filter feeders with tentacles, ovate bodies, and tube-like feet. They can release their internal organs or a toxin into the water when stressed.

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Giant Squid Filmed For The First Time Off The Coast Of Japan

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Flamboyant in close-up, a cowry is well disguised at a distance in the fluffy arms of pink-and-white soft coral. The mollusk’s body covers its shell, polishing it to the famous cowry sheen. - Nat Geo

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Related to corals and jellies, a siphonophore is a continuous chain of specialized polyps - individual animals that grow from one another in an organized colony. Some in the colony are devoted to feeding, armed with stinging cells to snag fish or invertebrates. Others are devoted to locomotion, propelling the whole group with a continuous pumping motion while some exist only to reproduce.

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mothernaturenetwork:

Plastic trash invades Arctic seafloorAlmost 70 percent of the litter on the ocean floor was in contact with deep-sea organisms.

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(via Brightly coloured fish | Murray Mitchell)

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Photobomb gone wrong

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