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A harp seal in icy water
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Harp Seal

Harp seals depend on seasonal ice during the breeding season. Their populations may...
A fur seal in kelp
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Fur Seal

Warming climate, changing ocean chemistry, and overfishing threaten kelp forests...
A school of Atlantic bluefin tuna
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna are caught in the wild and fattened in pens for...
A translucent pteropod swims freely in the open ocean with a black background.
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Shelled Pteropod

Changes in ocean chemistry destroy the shelled pteropods that this “naked sea...
Phoenix Islands protected area
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Phoenix Islands

Unlike most coral reefs, those of the Phoenix Islands are protected from pollution...
A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open.
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Mouth Agape Comb Jelly

A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open. Beroid comb...
Photo Spread showing a shrimp cleaning a fishes mouth from Citizens of the Sea
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Open Wide: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

"Open Wide" spread from Citizens of the Sea by Nancy Knowlton. ...
Venus fly-trap anemone in the Gulf of Mexico
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Venus Fly-Trap Anemone in the Gulf of Mexico

Like its terrestrial namesake, the Venus fly-trap anemone (Actinoscyphia sp.) sits...
Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

This transparent cockatoo squid (Leachia sp.), also known as a glass squid, lives...
A fringe of tentacles surrounds the bell of this jellyfish (Halicreas minimum).
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Midwater Jellyfish

A fringe of short tentacles surrounds the flattened bell of this tiny, transparent...
Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

Red Pigfish (Bodianus unimaculatus) and Blue Mao-Mao (Scorpis violacea) school at...
This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Deep Sea Copepod

This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the...

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