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Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.
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Are You My Mommy?

Human infants often already resemble their parents. Visitors coo, "Oh, she has your...
Red hot magma and ash erupt from an underwater volcano.
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An Underwater Volcanic Eruption

A volcanic eruption of superheated magma (some 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit) from the...
Superheated magma slowly leaks from a crack in the seafloor.
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Superheated Magma Underwater

Superheated magma, about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, glows orange as it slowly leaks...
A blenny fish against both a white and black backdrop, where you can see its beautiful color pattern.
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A New Fish DROP-ping In

By diving in the Curasub, Smithsonian researchers with the Deep Reef Observation...
An unidentified moray eel held in researcher's hands.
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A Baby Moray Eel, or a Really Small Adult?

This is an unidentified moray eel, collected from 650 feet off the coast of...
A photo of an anglerfish
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Sea Toad

This fish belongs to a group of anglerfishes known as lophiiformes. This species,...
A close-up photo of the seeds on the plant Phragmites australis.
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Phragmites australis, seeds

The invasive reed Phragmites australis can create new plants through seeds (shown...
Whalefish Specimen
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Mystery from the Deep: The Puzzling Case of the Whalefish

In 1895, two Smithsonian scientists described a new kind of deep sea creature,...
Ichthyologist (ik-thee-OL-uh-gist): a scientist who studies fish.
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Ichthyologist

Find out more about the field of ichthyology and the vast collection of fishes at...
An image of collections storage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Smithsonian Fish Collections

There are about 4 million specimens in the fish collection housed at the National...
Photo of three sea creatures involved in a scientific mystery
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Three Mystery Fish

Are these three fish related? All three—a whalefish, bignose, and...
The robotic arm of the ROV Quest finds life at an undersea vent.
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Studying Hydrothermal Vent Life

Census researchers manipulate the robotic arm of the remotely operated vehicle...

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