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King Manuel of Portugal rides a sea creature
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Political Props

Long before they disappeared from maps, sea monsters were repurposed for politics....
a mermaid illustration on an old map
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A Mermaid's Vanity

A siren admires herself in a mirror—a sign of her vanity—amongst ships in the...
A lobster like beat on an old map
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The Many Footed Beast

Polypus (meaning “many-footed”) was used to describe many animals, from the...
Two whales attack a ship on a map
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Whales of the Carta Marina

Two whales attack a ship as sailors try to scare them away by tossing barrels and...
A sea pig illustration on an old map
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Sea Swine

This sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like...
a part human, part horse, part fish on an early atlas
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Mythical Creatures on Maps

An ichthyocentaur (parts human, horse and fish) plays a viol on a map of...
A sea monster attacks a wooden ship
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Sea Monsters of an Early Atlas

Jonah is cast overboard to a sea monster in an image from the earliest known atlas,...
Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, deep-sea corals were colonized by hydroids and their branches began to break off. 
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Floc On Gulf Coral

Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil...
A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Deep-sea Coral In the Gulf of Mexico

A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral...
A map of of the Caribbean, featuring the island of Curaçao.
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Curaçao

Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean is the site of the...
This map shows where some of the most significant species of deep-sea corals are located.
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Deep-Sea Corals Worldwide

This map shows where some of the most significant species of deep-sea corals are...
Melissa Frey, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Rubenstein Fellow, examines a Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on a chilly day in Sidney, British Columbia. In addition to holding an EOL Fellowship, Melissa is a Research Associate at the Royal BC Museum, where she continues to engage in taxonomic studies.
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Taxonomic studies

Melissa Frey, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Rubenstein Fellow, examines a Pacific...

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