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Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.
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Are You My Mommy?

Human infants often already resemble their parents. Visitors coo, "Oh, she has your...
A blenny fish against both a white and black backdrop, where you can see its beautiful color pattern.
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A New Fish DROP-ping In

By diving in the Curasub, Smithsonian researchers with the Deep Reef Observation...
An unidentified moray eel held in researcher's hands.
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A Baby Moray Eel, or a Really Small Adult?

This is an unidentified moray eel, collected from 650 feet off the coast of...
A photo of an anglerfish
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Sea Toad

This fish belongs to a group of anglerfishes known as lophiiformes. This species,...
paleobiology field equipment for excavating a fossil whale in central america
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Equipment for a Fossil Excavation

Paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
Illustration of eddy fields in the Atlantic Ocean
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Robot Explores Ocean Eddies

The first unmanned, underwater robot or glider Scarlet Knight maneuvers through the...
Whalefish Specimen
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Mystery from the Deep: The Puzzling Case of the Whalefish

In 1895, two Smithsonian scientists described a new kind of deep sea creature,...
Ichthyologist (ik-thee-OL-uh-gist): a scientist who studies fish.
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Ichthyologist

Find out more about the field of ichthyology and the vast collection of fishes at...
An image of collections storage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Smithsonian Fish Collections

There are about 4 million specimens in the fish collection housed at the National...
Photo of three sea creatures involved in a scientific mystery
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Three Mystery Fish

Are these three fish related? All three—a whalefish, bignose, and...
Hurricane Wind Pattern in Gulf of Mexico
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NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping

A screen capture from NOAA's NowCoast website which displays real-time weather...
Hedbergella sliteri - this specific specimen is the "holotype" for this species. That means it is the reference point for what all members of the species should look like.
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Hedbergella sliteri

Hedbergella sliteri - this specific specimen is the "holotype" for this species....

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