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two veterinarians listen to a dolphins heart next to a dock
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Navy Dolphin

A trained Navy dolphin assumes a voluntary right lateral present in the water and...
A zodiac boat and bamboo plates in the ocean
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Bamboo Plates Map Currents

These plates were tracked by a drone from above. ...
a ship from above
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Spying a Front

A ship moves through a front, possibly with oil....
These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed cell are forming into fat cells after exposure to endocrine disruptors.
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Cells Get Fat

These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed...
Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead...
A scientist collects oil-laden "sand patties" on a Louisiana beach two years after the oil spill.
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Scientist Collects Oil on the Gulf Coast

A scientist, Chris Reddy from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, collects...
An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

Bonny Schumaker, cofounder of the nonprofit On Wings of Care, flies over the Gulf...
Dark brown oil floods a marsh after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Oily Marsh after the Oil Spill

Dark brown oil floods a marsh on the Mississippi Delta after the Deepwater Horizon...
Dolphins swimming among oily patches in the Gulf of Mexico
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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) observed in emulsified oil on April 29,...
Pelicans gather at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Pelicans Perch on Oil Booms

GRAND ISLE, La. -- Brown pelicans congregate on containment boom that surrounds...
dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

Dugongs, along with manatees, make up a group of marine mammals called sirenians or...
Ancient sea cow vertebra found in the Gatun Formation in Central America, Panama
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Ancient Sea Cow Vertebra

A fossil vertebra that a Smithsonian researcher's mother found while prospecting in...

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