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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

Redfish around a boulder pile with a large anemone. Boulders provide important structure for these fish, especially as juveniles.

Good boy!

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A spiny dogfish swimming over the seafloor.

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A school of squid swimming by.

Scallop heaven

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A haddock and two hagfish in an image full of sea scallops.

Swimming shells

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A hagfish with scallops swimming above.

Yummm

habcam, ocean habitat, marine life images

(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A seastar horde invading a sea scallop bed for food.

Inconsiderate humans

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A soda can next to a boulder. HabCam has found many examples of trash and debris on the seafloor.

Rich find

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A very dense area of sand dollars.

Odd group

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(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A group of hagfish next to a scallop.

The clean up man

habcam, ocean habitat, marine life images

(Image credit: Image courtesy of the HabCam Group and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

A lobster eating a fish carcass, likely a sculpin.

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