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Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible
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Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea

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Where the pH is the lowest, corals can no longer grow - sand, rubble and seagrasses replace the reef.
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Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean

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Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.
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What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

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A graph compares the crustacean biodiversity of coral reefs around the world.
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Hotspot of Biodiversity

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A sea monster attacks a ship in an illustration for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
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Ray Bradbury and the Sea

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The sun sets over Sanur in Bali, Indonesia during low tide.
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Live from the Field: Bali, Indonesia

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Brian Skerry takes an up close photo of a tiger shark on the seafloor.
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Patience is a Virtue

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A white crabeater seal resting on an iceberg.
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Life in the Field

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island

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