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Dancing in the dark
December 11, 2009Three views of one animal look like a magical dancing sprite in the night sea. A relative of the Man-o’-War, the predatory siphonophore Rhizophysa, is four inches high when contracted (middle) but its stinging tentacles stretch to a couple of feet when fishing. A scuba diver captured this one in the mid-Atlantic, and part of its DNA was analyzed and recorded for the Census of Marine Zooplankton project. (Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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