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The sea star Odontaster validus and sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri are often found living in association with one another along the Antarctic coastline, here during the Census of Marine Life.
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Sea Stars and Urchins off Antarctica

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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The Peninsula Valdes in Argentina was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The site is home to important breeding populations of the endangered southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and southern sea
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Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery

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10 grains of star shaped sand collected from southern Japan
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The Sant Ocean Hall: Life in the Sand Exhibit

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A screenshot from the video showing trash on a rocky beach.
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Trash on the Beach and in the Ocean

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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

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The velvet crab's aggressive nature has earned it the nickname devil's crab.
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The Velvet Swimming Crab

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The sun sets over the Smithsonian’s marine field station at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. For more than three decades, it has been home to the Smithsonian’s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Program.
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Sunset at Carrie Bow Cay

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Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
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Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

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Microscopic beach dweller in the sand.
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Organisms Beneath the Sand

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grains of sand collected from Orient Point, Long Island, NY
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Sand from Orient Point, Long Island, New York

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10 grains of star shaped sand collected from southern Japan
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Star Sand Grains Collected from Southern Japan

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