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		Monterey Menagerie << Back to Feature Page View exclusive photographs and get the facts behind the frame. Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Open Wide Photograph by NOAA/MBARI Resplendent in orange, a flytrap anemone waits in surrounding gloom for a meal to swim into its open maw. The anemone—this example living about a mile beneath the ocean's surface—is one of many deep-sea species that thrive on Davidson Seamount, a huge underwater volcano 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the coastal city of Monterey, California.

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