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A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean Conservancy's 2012 Coastal Cleanup.
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Picking Up Trash Along the Coast

A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean...
Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

Believe it or not, this unraveling thread is from hagfish slime. Hagfish are...
he pineapplefish has glowing organs that can be used to find prey at night.
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I Found the Pineapple!

Is that fruit swimming in the ocean? Well it may look like fruit, but it's actually...
A pearly razorfish
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Pearly Razorfish

The pearly razorfish’s name may be slightly misleading since it is neither as...
Striped eel catfish are the only species of catfish found in coral reefs.
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Striped Eel Catfish

When most people think of catfish, they think of a freshwater fish. But the striped...
This bait ball shows how small fish can react when larger predators are near, gathering tightly together in a ball-like formation that exposes the least number of fish.
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Bait Ball

This bait ball shows how small fish can react when larger predators are near by...
The mandarinfish lives in western Pacific tropical coral reef ecosystems and lacks the scales that are typically seen on bony fish.
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Mandarinfish Duo

These beautiful mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus) are covered in bright blue,...
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...
Two bright orange anemonefish poke their heads between anemone tentacles.
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Clownfish in their Host Anemone

Two bright orange anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) poke their heads between...
A school of yellowfin surgeonfish feed near dusk off Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands.
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Yellowfin Surgeonfish

A school of yellowfin surgeonfish, Acanthurus xanthopterus, feed near dusk off...
A wrought iron butterflyfish being cleaned by a small wrasse in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
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Butterflyfish and Wrasse

A wrought iron butterflyfish, Chaetodon daedalma, being cleaned by a small wrasse...
A yellow moray eel inside of a sea sponge in the waters off of Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand
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Moray Waits for a Meal

A yellow moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus, inside of a sea sponge in the waters off...

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