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Tiny sponge spicules.
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Sparkling Sponge Spicules

These sparkling sponge spicules are microscopic needle-like structures that many...
In the X-ray image of this Viper Moray Eel (Enchelynassa canina), note the second set of jaws in the “throat”; these are the gill arches, which are present in all fish.
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X-Ray Image of a Viper Moray Eel

In the X-ray image of this Viper Moray Eel (Enchelynassa canina), note the second...
Blue-spotted stingrays use the help of cleaner fish to stay clean and healthy.
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Blue-spotted Stingray

The blue-spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma) doesn’t like to be covered in sand...
The weedy sea dragon male can hold around 250 eggs in his pouch.
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The Dragon of the Sea

Just like other seahorse species, male weedy sea dragons are the ones to get...
Sunset over a fishing net.
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Technology and Sea Turtles

Sea turtles may have survived the planetary changes that killed the dinosaurs, but...
Using dynamite to stun or kill bigger fish to sell at market leaves behind many dead undesired fish as bycatch.
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Fishing with Dynamite

Blast fishing, when dynamite or other explosives are used to stun or kill fish, is...
It's a pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), found in Indonesia's biodiverse Coral Triangle and one of the smallest seahorse species in the world! They can change colors like a chameleon to blend into their environment. This helps to protect them from p
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Can You Spot the Seahorse?

It's a pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), found in Indonesia's biodiverse...
In some reefs, small fishes such as this broad-barred goby protect corals by eating invading seaweeds.
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Coral Goby Cleans Coral

One of the first signs of a sick coral reef is seaweed creeping across...
A net used to trawl the ocean floor scooped up this large specimen of deep-sea coral.
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Coral Trapped in Trawler Net

While bottom trawling—a fishing method that drags a large net with heavy weights...
Pygmy Seahorse Blends Into its Environment
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Eye to Eye With a Pygmy Seahorse

A master of disguise, the pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) grows to only 2cm...
A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing gear floats at the surface in the Bay of Fundy.
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Wounded North Atlantic Right Whale

A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing...
This is North Atlantic right whale #3333 who was spotted with fishing gear trailing from his mouth during an aerial survey off the coast of Georgia on January 29, 2008.
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Whale Entanglement

This is North Atlantic right whale #3333 who was spotted with fishing gear trailing...

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