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an adult and baby coelacanth specimens on display

Meet the Coelacanth

Learn about the fish that was once thought to be extinct.

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Un pescador de una pesquería a pequeña escala de Honduras se embarca en una excursión de pesca.

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Medidas Inteligentes Rastrea las Presiones de Pesca

A blue parrotfish hides among coral.

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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.

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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.

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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot

A school of akule (Hawaiian for bigeye scad) explode into a camera's frame.

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Following the Akule

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Ocean Optimism Video - Linking Communities to Fisheries Science

Grey reef sharks are among the most versatile and tough predators on a Pacific coral reef, but they are also among the most vulnerable species, as they are threatened by wasteful fishing practices like shark finning.

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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

Wooden painted fish on a school fence.

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Chinook Salmon: One Species at a Time

A sea toad from the deep waters off of Curacao.

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Collections from Curaçao

Mistaken Point New Foundland

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Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time

Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.

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Struggling to Survive, But with a Chance to Thrive

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Feeding Humphead Parrotfish

an adult and baby coelacanth specimens on display

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Coelacanth

A Honduran small-scale fisherman on a boat setting out to fish.

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Clever Measures Track Fishing Pressures

A Pontoh pygmy seahorse

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10 Things You Never Knew About Seahorses

On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.

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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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Meet the Tiny Bacteria That Give Anglerfishes Their Spooky Glow