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a man with a hard helmet in a cave
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Adaptation in the Extremes: What Scale Worms Teach Us About Evolution

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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

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"Break On Through" was taken by Wendy Wolf at California's Pfeiffer Beach. This photo was a winning selection in the Portraits of Planet Ocean Flickr contest.
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Break On Through

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A tiny yellow goby living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan
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Portraits of Planet Ocean: The Photography of Brian Skerry

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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

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

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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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How Sea Slugs Steal the Defenses of Their Prey

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A tusk shell hermit crab peeks out of his shell.
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Uncovering Biodiversity Before It Disappears

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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 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

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Baby shark attached to yolk sac
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Sharks from the Vault

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

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