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Male Fifteen spined stickleback / Sea stickleback (Spinachia spinachia)

Male Fifteen spined stickleback / Sea stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) guarding a nest in Spaghetti seaweed / Thong weed (Himanthalia elongata), Isle of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, North Atlantic Ocean

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Stingless golden jellyfish (Mastigias sp.), backlit by the sun

Stingless golden jellyfish (Mastigias sp.), backlit by the sun, in a landlocked marine lake in the middle of an island. Their golden colour comes from endosymbiotic algae, which provide nutrition for the medusae, as long as the jellies stay in the sun. Farondi Islands, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Tropical West Pacific Ocean

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