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Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.

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Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery

Bioluminescence is one of the more captivating adaptations that have evolved in...

Thu, 08/18/2011 - 16:24

This aptly named fish has two long fangs.

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Creepy Critters: Marine Life Surfaces for Halloween

Claws, spines, spikes, tentacles, and fangs. Aliens, monsters, and ghostly...

Wed, 10/27/2010 - 13:56

Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.

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Endangered Ocean Animals

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law on December 28, 1973 by...

Mon, 12/02/2013 - 14:00

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

Instead of creating sculptures like this one, volunteers with Debris Free Bonaire collect and throw out trash. As of May 2014, the group has removed more than 5,650 cubic feet of marine plastic from Bonaire's eastern coastline!

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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

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

A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.

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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will...

This small drone helped scientists to follow a trail of pink dye tracking ocean movement below the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Following the Dye by Drone

This small drone helped scientists follow a trail of pink dye tracking water...

Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to scientists through a GPS satellite. Some of the 5.7 million data points about the drifters locations are seen in this map of the Gulf.

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Tracking CARTHE Drifters

Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to...

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Yellowfin Surgeonfish

A school of yellowfin surgeonfish, Acanthurus xanthopterus, feed near dusk off...

A wrought iron butterflyfish being cleaned by a small wrasse in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.

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Butterflyfish and Wrasse

A wrought iron butterflyfish, Chaetodon daedalma, being cleaned by a small wrasse...

A yellow moray eel inside of a sea sponge in the waters off of Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand

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Moray Waits for a Meal

A yellow moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus, inside of a sea sponge in the waters off...

The tapetail is the larva of the family. It transforms into either a male (bignose) or female whalefish.

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Meet the Whalefish Family

Whalefish mystery solved! The tapetail is the larva of the family. It transforms...

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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

Following the Dye by Drone

Tracking CARTHE Drifters

Yellowfin Surgeonfish

Butterflyfish and Wrasse

Moray Waits for a Meal

Meet the Whalefish Family

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