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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.

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Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

The ribbon worm seen here, Ramphogordius sanguineus, is known to regenerate after losing a part of its body.

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Ribbon Worm Redux

A sea sponge underwater

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Sea Sponges: Pharmacies of the Sea

Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.

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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

A screenshot from the video of a shark swimming underwater.

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Shark DNA Helps Catch Poachers

Bright bubblegum coral sits on a brown, hard substrate.

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Optimism in the Deep Sea - Connecting Corals, Museums, and Ocean Managers

"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.

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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

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

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Live from the Field: Bali, Indonesia

The shell of a sea slug

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A Microscopic Identity Crisis

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

In 2011, storms and lack of ice-cover due to a warmer winter climate resulted in hundreds of seal pups being washed up on the shore of Prince Edward Island. Like many, this young seal faced an uncertain future. See more Nature's Best Photos.

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Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice