Gallery: Inside the Gorgeous and Mysterious World of Plankton
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The potentially immortal jellyfish can reverse its development, transitioning from an adult back to a polyp.
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The incredible sapphirina copepod. Normally transparent, when light hits it the right way, [it flashes with brilliant color](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex39GYeLQFk).
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Nudibranchs typically stick to the sea floor, but this little juvenile joins the plankton
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A baby squid
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Shelled mollusks known as pteropods
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A swarm of unicellular protists
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The unicellular algae *Phaeocystis globosa*
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Solitary diatoms
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A swarm of radiolarians, plus a cross-shaped acantharian
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Tintinnids
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A female jellyfish with pink gonads
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A siphonophore
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A whole mess of creatures, including crab larvae, copepods, and shrimp larvae
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Shrimp larvae
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Panaeid shrimp larva
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Phronima, a crustacean that attacks gelatinous animals like siphonophores and lives in their hollowed-out bodies.
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Small mollusks known as heteropods
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The “sea elephant”
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They may not look it, but these chaetognaths are ferocious predators
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A pyrosome, which is actually made up of hundreds of separate zooids
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