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I spy with my barreleye, a new #FreshFromTheDeep ! During a dive with our education and outreach partner, the @MontereyAq , the team came across a rare treat: a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma).

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A new look at footage recorded by one of MBARI’s deep-sea robots during an expedition to the Gulf of California has revealed a new deep-sea squid that broods giant eggs. Learn more:

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Breaking news: We believe that this tiny crab was indeed trying to hide from Monday. ⁠ During ROV dives in the Monterey Bay, MBARI researchers often observe small crabs riding on the backs or clinging to the bellies of Scotoplanes sea cucumbers, also known as sea pigs.⠀

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The view from below. ⁠ ⁠ This species, Careproctus longifilis, is also known as the threadfin snailfish. These deep-sea snailfish are found at depths between 1,900 and 3,334 meters (6,230 and 10,940 feet) and measure up to 15 centimeters (about six inches long).

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A whalefish?!? 🐋🐟 Originally described as resembling baleen whales, these fish are incredibly rare. We have very few images of species in the family Cetomimidae, but we were lucky enough to capture this spectacular footage this year! ⁠ #yearinreview2019 #BestofMBARI

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The fellowship of the deep. ⁠🧙🏼✨ ⁠ It's uncommon to see gatherings like this in the deep abyssal plain. These invertebrates—an octopus, tanner crab, and a couple of sea cucumbers and anemones were observed off the coast of Half Moon Bay at 1,949 meters (6,395 feet) deep.

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MBARI staff have shown off their deep-sea Halloween costumes in the office today. 👻 This bioluminescent jelly is one of our favorites. Show us your deep-sea costumes!

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On #WorldOctopusDay , your obligatory moment of adorable with the flapjack octopus. Opisthoteuthis sp. uses finger-like cirri under their arms to catch prey like crustaceans and polychaete worms. Learn more about deep-sea octopuses:

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Spending some quality time with the sparkliest octopus.⁠ ✨⁠ ⁠ Japatella diaphana lives exclusively in the midwater from a few hundred to over 1,000 meters. Chromatophores with pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells allow it to change its skin color.

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Your #molluskmonday moment of zen. #taonius #squid #momentofzen

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On the seafloor, in cracks and crevices on the edge of Davidson Seamount— an underwater mountain made of ancient lava—scientists got to observe not hundreds, but thousands of octopuses sitting on their eggs! #cephalopodweek #cephalomania ⁠⠀

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Casper the Risso's dolphin makes another appearance in the Monterey Bay! @SFGate

Lucky whale watchers spot snow-white dolphin in Monterey Bay

Casper has been wowing many on the bay.

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Tentacles up if you are ready for the weekend! ⁠🦑 ⁠ Octopoteuthis deletron, aka the octopus squid, only has eight arms unlike most squid. They can detach their arm, leaving a wiggling arm with a #bioluminescent photophore tip in the grasp of their confused would-be predator.

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What's in a name?⁠ ⁠ This cranchiid squid, Helicocranchia, has quite a few nicknames from our deep-sea biologists. It's called the pig-nosed, helicopter-tailed, and hippo-squid, depending on who you ask, of course. What nickname would you give it?

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Had a starring contest with an owl fish--we lost. The owlfish, named for the size of its large eyes relative to its head, lives throughout the North Pacific. In the Monterey Bay, we observe these fish between a few hundred meters to over 2,000 meters (6,561 feet).

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It's an octo-party! #FridayMotivation These juvenile red octopuses, Octopus rubescens, are swarming around an egg yolk jelly in the Monterey Bay. These octopuses live in the shallow midwater as juveniles and then settle and live on the seafloor as adults.⁠

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From shark fly-bys and googly-eyed squid to toothy-grinned fishes and corals the size of trees, MBARI’s ROVs encountered many spellbinding scenes in the deep this year. Enjoy MBARI’s #Bestof2022 ! 🌊🎉💙

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There's still so much we don't know about deep-sea cephalopods like this Planctoteuthis squid and its beautifully ornate tail 🦑 Other squids in the family Chiroteuthidae have an ornate tail as juveniles, but lose the tail as adults. Learn more:

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#FreshFromTheDeep : A whalefish was spotted last week with ROV Doc Ricketts! This whalefish (order Cetomimiformes) was encountered by @beroe 's team on their R/V Western Flyer expedition 2,013 meters deep offshore of Monterey Bay.

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Baby lobster always gets us! ⁠ This adorable baby is the Eryoneicus larval stage of a deep-sea lobster. It floats and feeds in the water column until it’s ready to change into a juvenile lobster and settle on the seafloor. This one is about five centimeters (two inches) long.⁠

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The fangtooth fish has a face only a mother could love. 🌊👹💙 But this fierce-looking fish actually gets no bigger than the average adult human hand. A rare find, we've spotted fangtooth just eight times in the past 30 years of MBARI ROV expeditions. #WeirdandWonderful

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Gliding into Cephalopod Awareness Days with a mama Gonatus squid. 🦑⁠ ⁠ MBARI scientists discovered that some female deep-sea squid, like this Gonatus onyx, brood their eggs by carrying them between their arms until the young hatch and swim away. ⁠

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Ghostsharks, or chimaeras, branched off the evolutionary tree from sharks, about 400 million years ago. We spotted this one, Harriotta raleighana, aka longnose chimaera, 2,241 m deep in the Gulf of California. #SharkWeek Another cool ghostshark:

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Tiburonia granrojo, also known as the big red jelly, is one of the most remarkable residents of the deep sea. A closer look reveals batteries of stinging nematocysts that cover the surface of the big red jelly. These tiny harpoon-like cells stun the jelly’s prey.

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Octopus or squid? 🧐🐙🦑⁠ ⁠ Octopoteuthis deletron, aka the octopus squid, only has eight arms (like its octopus relatives). This species of squid is impressive in many different ways. Their tentacles are bioluminescent, with light-producing photophores at the end of each arm.

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The hidden lives of #deepsea creatures caught on camera. Super-sensitive devices capture #bioluminescent displays and other behaviours long shrouded in darkness. #MBARI scientist Steve Haddock’s work featured in @nature #DSBS2018 @beroe

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Nothing says holiday cheer like twinkling squid arms ✨🦑✨ Like a lizard that detaches its tail when attacked, the octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) can drop its bioluminescent arm tips, leaving a wiggling arm in the grasp of a confused would-be predator.

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Fun fact for #WorldOctopusDay : The plural of octopus is octopuses NOT octopi 🐙🐙🐙

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This orange cirrate octopus was observed gracefully gliding over the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals called Cirrata named for the presence of hair-like structures called “cirri” on their arms which may help them capture food.⁠

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Fresh from the deep—this mom is a pelagic parent 🦑⁠ ⁠ During a recent deep-sea dive, MBARI researchers encountered this incredibly rare sight—a deep-sea squid (Bathyteuthis sp.) grasping hundreds of eggs in her arms. #FreshFromTheDeep

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Swimming into Monday with the panda bear pteropod 🥰 The panda bear sea angel Notobranchaea macdonaldi is snail-relative known as a pteropod, or “wing-foot”. #MolluscMonday

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Meet your friendly neighborhood ghostshark👻🦈⁠ ⁠ Ghostsharks (aka chimaera) aren't really sharks at all! Their closest living relatives are sharks, and about 400 million years ago they branched off the evolutionary tree from sharks. #SharkWeek WATCH:

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The cutest #MolluskMonday . EVER. 😍 ⁠ ⁠ The flapjack octopus, Opisthoteuthis cf. californiana, is a cirrate octopus, a group named for the hair-like structures called 'cirri' on their arms, which they use to capture of food. Another cirrate octopus:

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Shromp mode initiated 🦐🙌🏽⁠ ⁠ @MontereyAq ⁠ This deep-sea shrimp, Acanthephyra sp., can be found at depths between 500 and 3,000 meters (1,640 and 9,840 feet). Without our ROV lights, this bright red shrimp would be invisible in the darkness of the deep sea. #SHROMPweek2023

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Fresh from the deep!⁠ ⁠ During a recent deep-sea dive, our team came across one of the most remarkable residents of the ocean’s twilight zone: the strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis). We spotted this crimson cephalopod 725 meters (2,378 feet) deep in Monterey Canyon.

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Most sponges are simple filter feeders—they eat small plankton and bacteria that they ‘filter’ from the surrounding water. But in 2012, scientists discovered a sponge that uses small hooks along its vertical branches to entrap and devour larger, more nutrient-dense prey.

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This Solmissus jelly probably gets its color from its prey—another purple jelly!⁠ ⁠ Deep-sea jellies have many remarkable shapes, sizes, and colors. Using ROVs, researchers have uncovered previously unknown predator-prey relationships between midwater gelatinous organisms.

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This #MolluskMonday moment of zen might make you squeal. 🐽⁠ ⁠ This cranchiid squid, Helicocranchia, has quite a few nicknames from our deep-sea biologists. It's called the pig-nosed, helicopter-tailed, and hippo-squid, depending on who you ask. What nickname would you give it?

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These jelly-like siphonophores astound with their breathtaking beauty.⁠ ⁠ From the surface to the seafloor, the ocean is home to many extraordinary siphonophores. Learn more about some of the spectacular species we’ve encountered:

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Earlier this year, we visited an octopus garden on Davidson Seamount with @MBNMS . These Muusoctopus robustus make up the largest aggregation of octopuses brooding eggs ever observed in the deep sea! #WorldOctopusDay @EVNautilus video from the same spot:

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These amazing images demonstrate what’s possible when scientists and engineers work together to develop new technology for exploring the deep ocean. Learn more:

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Holy mola! It’s a whole new year! The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, can grow up to 10 feet long. With a tiny mouth, this animal slurps jellies as they swim through the ocean. It’s a treat for our ROVs to spot a sunfish as it dives to deeper water to feast on jellies. #NewYear2022

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POV: floating under the sea, serenely drifting with the jellies.⁠ ⁠ Sit back and relax with these soothing jellies. From tiny delicate drifters to giant deep-sea denizens, jellies come in a variety of beautiful and mesmerizing forms.

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Don’t be fooled by this dazzling deep-sea dweller; Beroe forskalii is actually a fierce predator.🌟 When it bumps into another comb jelly, Beroe uses tiny hairs that act like teeth to grab onto its prey. It then opens its mouth wide and tries to swallow its meal whole.⁠

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Deep-sea double helix DNA⁠ 🧬⁠ ⁠ Salps are gelatinous invertebrates that live in the open ocean but are closely related to the "sea squirts" (tunicates) seen in tidepools. This species, Helicosalpa virgula, was observed by ROV Doc Ricketts 282 meters deep in Monterey Bay.

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Rays and skates don't get as much press as their famous, spotlight-hogging kin🦈 But we think they should! Especially when you're called the torpedo ray, and you can produce up to 50 volts of electricity to catch your dinner: #SharkWeek

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Wait for it...⁠ 🦈 ⁠ This rare glimpse of a blue shark, Prionace glauca, was captured by the ROV Ventana at 290 meters (951 feet) deep in the Monterey Canyon.⁠ #SharkWeek #SharkWeek2021

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RT @EricHolthaus : The odds of 400 warmer-than-average months in a row is approximately: 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

For 400 months in a row, our planet has been unusually hot

Either 400 warm months in a row is an incredible coincidence or something else is going on.

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When you are a cute little shark with a large, bulbous head and some scientist decides to call you a lollipop shark, you roll with it. 🍭🦈🍭 Researchers found schools of these sharks thriving in low-oxygen waters of the Gulf Of California: #SharkWeek

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Basically, the coolest thing we've ever seen. #vampyrAWESOME ⁠ ⁠ The vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, has a grim reputation and name, but they're not blood-suckers. They actually eat snot, poop and dead stuff. Learn more: #MolluscMonday

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#MBARI scientists discovered that the #deepsea squid, Gonatus onyx, broods their eggs by carrying them between their arms until the young hatch and swim away: #CephalopodWeek

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Sharks and #SharkWeek sometimes get a bad rap, but we love to highlight these phenomenal fishes!⁠ 🦈⁠ ⁠ Lollipop catsharks, Cephalurus cephalus,are as cute as they sound! Their large heads and gills may help them absorb oxygen in low-O2 environments:

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What's better than ice cream and a unicorn ride under a rainbow on your birthday? It's Cephalopod Week! And it's finally here! Here's a swimming Benthoctopus to get the festivities started off right! #hydrodynamic #propulsion #cephalopodweek #cephalomania

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Party in the #deepsea ! An uncommon gathering of invertebrates on the abyssal plain

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The vampire squid is neither a squid nor an octopus. It is the only living member of Vampyromorpha, an ancient cephalopod order which gave rise to both squids and octopuses: #CephalopodWeek

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The curious deep-sea rattail fish is here to wish you happy #YearOfTheRat ! #WeirdandWonderful

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Even better than #SharkWeek , #ElasmoWeek is here! We'll feature some of our favorite deep-sea elasmobranchs. The Pacific electric ray, Tetronarce californica, ⁠isn't just a cool name—this ray is capable of producing up to 50 volts of electricity to catch its next meal⚡

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The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) has bioluminescent tentacles with light-producing photophores at the end of each arm. ⁠The squid can detach these bioluminescent tips, leaving a wiggling arm with a flashing light in the grasp of their confused would-be predator.

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From rare deep-sea fishes and giant jellies to adorable octopuses and twinkling squid, MBARI's ROVs encountered some captivating moments in 2021. As we continue to explore the largest and least known habitat on Earth, we promise to share our discoveries with you! #Bestof2021

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Meet the largest family of living sharks today—deep-sea catsharks. With more than 90 species, catsharks are named for their long, cat-like eyes that are specialized for seeing in low light conditions. #WeirdandWonderful

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#FriendsReunion deep-sea style 🐙🦀💙🌊 Who's your favorite character?

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This week's deep-sea animal you've never heard of: the slime star. 🤓🌟⁠ ⁠ This adorable little deep-sea starfish (Pteraster sp.) may look innocent, but a potential predator will get a taste of some nasty slime if it tries to take a bite!

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It's spring and we are celebrating the babies blooming in the deep sea! Deep-sea babies may look and live very differently from their parents to enhance their chance of survival and may even journey from the seafloor to the surface and back again.

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Gliding into February... Like a torpedo ray on the hunt for some tasty anchovies ⚡🐟⚡ #MondayMotivation

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Behold, the beauty of geology 🤩⁠ ⁠ At the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the underwater landscape is littered with angular fragments of basalt that were the remnants of an old lava lake. See what else researchers discovered here:

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During a research #expedition to the Beaufort Sea in the Canadian Arctic in the summer of 2017, this blob #sculpin was found standing guard next to small, white spheres: its eggs. This level of parental care has rarely been observed for deep-sea #animals . #deepsealife #research

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Introducing, Dining in the Deep—a peek at the eating habits of some of our favorite deep-sea gourmets. ⁠🍴 ⁠ This deep-sea food maven is Aegina sp. No, that's not the large red comb jelly, it's the tiny pulsing jellyfish that's ravenously consuming its much larger prey. #foodie

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Meet one of the most colorful residents of the deep sea. ✨ The psychedelic jelly’s remarkable coloration tipped off scientists that they had found a previously unknown species. It was named in honor of Claudia Mills for her dedication to studying the ocean’s delicate drifters.

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THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!! #literally

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Meet Atolla reynoldsi, a new species of deep-sea crown jelly discovered in Monterey Bay. This species honors Jeff Reynolds, @MontereyAq ’s first volunteer, and celebrates the contributions of Aquarium volunteers to inspiring ocean conservation. Learn more:

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Hats off to this captivating cephalopod. 🎩⁠ To hunt, Grimalditeuthis bonplandi squids send their clubs swimming away from their bodies, dragging the tentacles behind them, giving the impression that their clubs are small swimming animals.

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Up close and personal with a deep-sea lizardfish🦎🐟

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Happy #WorldOceanDay 🌎 Celebrate with eight minutes of stunning ultra high-definition 4K underwater video brought to you by MBARI’s deep-sea robots: #UNWorldOceansDay

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A remarkable sighting in the deep sea! Dragonfish lurk in the dark depths. 🐉🐟🖤 #FreshFromTheDeep

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Say hello to a cephalopod you should know—the corkscrew squid, Planctoteuthis danae. This deep-sea squid has an ornate tail, the function of which is unknown. Other squids in the family Chiroteuthidae have ornate tails as juveniles, but lose them as adults. #CephalopodWeek

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Can't stop, won't stop [eating] 😋⁠ This deep-sea crab was caught on camera "snacking" on naturally occurring methane bubbling from the deep seafloor off the coast of Vancouver Island. Methane hydrate, an ice-like substance, formed when the crab attempted to "eat" the bubbles.

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Gliding into #CephalopodWeek like...⁠ ⁠ We often spot the flapjack octopus, Opisthoteuthis, resting on the mud, resembling a fluffy little pancake. When startled, they swim up off the seafloor. When the coast is clear, they stretch their webbed arms and parachute down again.

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It’s #WorldJellyfishDay , and we want to give a shout-out to the lesser-known jelly cousins—siphonophores. ⁠ ⁠ Along with jellies, siphonophores belong to a larger group called Cnidarians. But unlike jellies, they are made up of specialized segments that work together as one.

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Underwater volcanic eruptions give birth to new seafloor 🌎 In 2015, 1,500 m deep off the Oregon coast, cracks in the seafloor opened and molten lava poured out. MBARI researchers visited the site a year later and captured this remarkable scenery with ROV Doc Ricketts.

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Sit back and enjoy 10 relaxing minutes at the Octopus Garden🐙 Deep below the ocean’s surface, thousands of pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) gather near an extinct underwater volcano off the California coast to mate and nest. Learn more:

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RT @AlistairDove : #DYK an albino whale shark was once spotted in Galapagos? never been seen since... #sharkweek

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Cephalopod Week 2022 has finally arrived, and the gang’s all here to celebrate! This rowdy group of galatheid crabs and deep-sea octopus, Muusoctopus sp., was gathered on a dormant hydrothermal chimney on Alarcón Rise in the Gulf of California. #cephalopodweek

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Spending quality time with another radiant resident of the deep. ✨⁠ ⁠ Present throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world's ocean, Japetella diaphana lives exclusively in the midwater at depths of a few hundred to over 1,000 meters (up to 3,000 feet).

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Our vampire squid is up and ready to party, and we hope you are too! Come join us today at our Open House from noon to 5 pm!

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There's nothing like finding a ping pong tree sponge in the deep sea! This carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus, was filmed by ROV Tiburon 2,555 meters deep in the Gulf of California. More fascinating deep-sea animals on our #CreatureFeature :

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Sleek, silvery, and adorned with bioluminescence along their bellies, Pacific viperfish (Chauliodus macouni) make fearsome predators. Sign up for MBARI's newsletter to learn more about this and other dazzling denizens of the deep: .

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Vampire squid and #Halloween go arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm...you get the picture 🤣🦑🦇🧛‍♂️ #DeepSeaHalloween

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Do you think the Lorax of the sea speaks for the phytoplankton? #CephalopodWeek

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The siphonophore magic continues 🌟 We’ve discovered a rainbow of siphonophores in the depths of Monterey Bay and beyond, like this stunning species, Marrus claudanielis, described by MBARI researchers and their collaborators in 2005. Learn more:

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We've only encountered this obscure group of fishes 18 times in 34 years of deep-sea exploration with our ROVs.

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For #EarthDay we’re featuring some of the never-seen-before animals MBARI researchers have discovered as we explore Earth's largest habitat. These discoveries are beautiful reminders of how much we still don’t yet know about our mostly blue planet:

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We are loving the #FreshVsSaltyFish debate, but no shallow-dweller—salty or not—can win in a battle of the fishes when deep-sea fish enter the race. #TeamSalt #TeamDeepSea

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The harp sponge was named one of the top 10 astounding marine species of the last decade by @WRMarineSpecies ! This #deepsea sponge was discovered by researchers using #MBARI ROVs. #lifewatch #marinespecies #harpsponge VIDEO:

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In the deep sea, gelatinous organisms can take many strange forms as we approach with the ROV, and this scyphomedusa in the genus Deepstaria is certainly one of the oddest creatures we’ve ever seen! ⁠ Learn more about Deepstaria:

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#MolluscMonday moment of squee🐙🥰 This little one is a baby Cirrate octopus. The group is named for the hair-like structures called 'cirri' on their arms that may aid in the capture of food. They use their fins to gracefully propel themselves through the water.

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