Planet Ocean

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ph: @joewestphotography

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A Burst of Deep Sea Fireworks: A Rare Jellyfish Filmed by the E/V Nautilus

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Gray whales feed by filtering out sediment from the ocean floor

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The Monterey Bay is doing its best impression of our sea nettle exhibit! This year has seen a return of the classic sea nettles blooms we experience outside of El Niño cycles. These sea nettles were filmed inside the Monterey harbor a few weeks ago, pushed in by the tides and currents.

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Medusa by ASGARRIDO

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The giant Tritonia is quite the impressive slug, cruising the sandy seafloor searching for sea pens to slurp! Its vertical anemone fodder determines its body color, from the light cream color spotted locally to a dark pink further up the coast.

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Flying Orca. Photos by Menno Schaefer.

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The emotion this provokes in me is indescribable

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Scientific illustration of jellyfish, Rhizostoma pulmo, and Cotylorhiza tuberculata, 1910.

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9/4/15

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The Alabaster Nudibranch can be found in the temperate waters of the Pacific, from Alaska to California and along the coasts of Russia and Japan. The beautiful, wispy white tipped cerata are actually the animal’s lungs. But don’t let it’s delicate form fool you, this nudi’s jaws are strong enough to crack open the shell of a snail, one of its preferred meals - photo taken at Seattle, Washington

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Graceful and critically endangered, an encounter with a hawksbill sea turtle will leave even us conservationists speechless. Nature Conservancy senior scientist @heystephwear swam alongside one on a recent trip to St. John in the Caribbean. The Conservancy is working to protect their nesting beaches, often the same beaches where they themselves were born. @nature_caribbean #turtle #seaturtle #caribbean #ocean #iliketurtles #endangeredspecies (at St John USVI)

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Calf by Jason Isley