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a sunken propeller becomes overtaken by a reef with two scuba diver in the background
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When Wrecks Become Reefs

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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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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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The Island of Moorea

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Connected Ecosystems

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Photograph of a bristly brown and white worm, with one end pressed against a pale green coral.
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Fireworm Takes on Fire Coral

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an advertisement featuring a man in scuba gear and a woman smiling at him
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Coppertone Advertisement

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scuba divers swim over bleached stag corals
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White Corals in a Bleached Reef

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs

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The small larvae of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) settle and grow on the crustose coralline algae species Hydrolithon boergesenii.
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Coral Larvae Settling

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A pair of French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) swim off the coast of Brazil.
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Pair of Angelfish

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A close-up photo of dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), living in the Baltic Sea.
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Dead Man’s Fingers

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Whitemouth morays hide in the crevices of Indo-Pacific coral reefs with only their heads (and white mouths) emerging, mouths agape, to breathe and hunt crustaceans and fish.
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Eel, Embedded

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