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Exhibit: Mission to the Deep

Do the Locomotion in the Deep!

June 2010

There's more than one way to swim in the deep sea. Watch sea spiders "stride," octopus pulse and sea butterflies flap in this video from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Researchers there use remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to observe and record deep-sea animal behaviors.

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