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Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery

Marine World Heritage is a prestigious list of 43 marine ecosystems and...

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A Collection of Cambrian Fossils

When you're standing in a museum surrounded by fossils, you can almost imagine...

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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem

Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) are incredible birds. They have a...

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Celebrating Marine Moms

The ocean is home to many moms of all shapes and sizes: from charismatic polar...

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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

Bonaire, a small Caribbean island just north of Venezuela, is routinely ranked as a...

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Plastic Bag Bans Work

There is a huge amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean, which endangers...

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Punta Tombo Penguins

Every breeding season, some 400,000 Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus)...

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Band-rumped Storm-petrels

Band-rumped Storm-petrels (Oceanodroma castro) are quite a bit larger and heavier...

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Red Pharalopes

Red Phalaropes (Phalaropus fulicarius) are a type of sandpiper that have...

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Pomarine Jaeger Skims the Surface

Pomarine Jaegers (Stercorarius pomarinus), also known as Pomarine Skuas, are...

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King Penguins, Right Whale Beach, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean

There are over 30 colonies of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on South...

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Adélie Penguins Face Off

These cute Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are actually having a bit of a...