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Nature
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The longest living organism ever recorded in the ocean depths is not a solitary animal, but a prodigious colony of specialized clones.
Animals
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This deep-sea dweller features a crystal-clear, fluid-filled tissue dome housing two green ocular spheres capable of scanning the ocean through its own forehead.
Biology
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Macropinna microstoma has a biological crystalline dome and green tubular eyes capable of rotating inside its head.
Biology
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For more than six decades, science believed this animal always looked upward, until a robotic submarine revealed its intact liquid dome.
Nature
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How a tiny shell-less mollusk consumes Portuguese man-of-war and stores their stinging cells intact to become more toxic than its prey.
Nature
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Discovered alive in the deep ocean, this fish has a transparent dome that protects two green eyes capable of rotating inside its own skull.
Nature
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Discover how Glaucus atlanticus, an amazing pelagic mollusk, floats upside down on the ocean surface and uses the stinging cells of its prey to become a lethal predator.