The three-meter (nine-foot) invertebrate was filmed from a manned submersible during one of 100 dives in the Pacific last summer in a joint expedition by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Discovery Channel and Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science.

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Before meeting with the President, in an award ceremony today at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Science and Technology Advisor John Holdren conferred the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to the 96 outstanding researchers.

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The archaeology exhibit, a collaboration between the science centre, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the National Geographic Society, displays props, drawings, and set designs from the Indiana Jones movies as well as actual artefacts from real-life digs.

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