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After ocean scientists sort deep-sea coral samples into their different types, they measure and photograph the specimens.
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Studying Deep-Sea Corals

 What happens to deep-sea coral samples after they are collected? In this image...
Thu, 06/09/2011 - 09:23
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

 On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
Color illustration of an ancient bivalve.
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Rudist Reefs

 About 100 million years ago, during the heyday of the dinosaurs, reefs were built...
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 14:25
A polar bear and its cub in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
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Celebrating Marine Moms

 The ocean is home to many moms of all shapes and sizes: from charismatic polar...
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 17:29
Hundreds of birds congregate around the trawl fishing vessel. The orange "bird scaring lines" keep the birds from flying into the trawl cables where they can accidentally get caught and die.
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Bird scaring lines

 Hundreds of birds congregate around the trawl fishing vessel. The orange "bird...
A plastic bag floats at sea.
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Plastic Bag Bans Work

 There is a huge amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean, which endangers...
Only 2,000 individuals of the endangered short-tailed albatross remain after the species was hunted for its feathers in the 1940s.
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Short-tailed Albatross

 In the 1940s the short-tailed albatross population plummeted from tens of millions...