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Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico

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Tagging and Tracking Animals Underwater

A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky

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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

Like other cephalopods, the common cuttlefish (Sepia officials Linnaeus, 1758) possesses serious brain power.

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So You Think You're Smarter Than a Cephalopod?

A screenshot from the video showing a bioluminescent seastar.

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The Weird, Wonderful World of Bioluminescence

Three Killer whales (Orca) swim along side researchers.

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Listening for Clues About Sonar’s Effects on Marine Mammals

A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest

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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

A blue-ringed octopus

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How Octopuses and Squids Change Color

The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu

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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.

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A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean

Small red hyperiid.

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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

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 humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.

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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?