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A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

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This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

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A surfer waits for the perfect wave.
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Surfer at Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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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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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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A wave curls near the shore.
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The Importance of a Wave

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The blue lined octopus can be deadly, so it is best to stay away.
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The Dangerous Blue Octopus

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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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Microscopic beach dweller in the sand.
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Organisms Beneath the Sand

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A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
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The Great Hermit Crab Migration

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