Plankton (IMAGE)

Florida State University

Plankton

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Plankton found in the open-ocean Gulf of Mexico. The golden tufts in the bottom left are Trichodesmium, the long organism in the middle is a chaetognath, and many of the out-of-focus blobs are copepods.

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Courtesy of Michael Stukel/Florida State University

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