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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...
"Ocean sunfish" by Mark Harris
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Chasing a Basking Shark

It was a hot and sunny day, with barely a whiff of breeze. I boarded a boat in...
October 2015
A school of Atlantic bluefin tuna swimming.
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: One Species at a Time

What is it like to be eyeball to eyeball with a fish the size of a Volkswagen? In...
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 18:57
Wooden painted fish on a school fence.
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Chinook Salmon: One Species at a Time

Can painted wooden fish on a schoolyard fence change human behavior and help clean...
Mon, 07/11/2011 - 14:17
Mistaken Point New Foundland
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Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time

When the cod fishery collapsed in Newfoundland in the early 1990s, the hopes of the...
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 15:37
Jeweler Palovi Baezar with her first set of lionfish earrings, which she made in the summer of 2013.

When Life Gives You Lionfish…

It was the summer of 2013, and Phil Karp was staring at a dead lionfish. Earlier,...
July 2017
A tiny yellow goby living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan
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Yellow Goby

A tiny yellow goby, Lubricogobius exiguus, living inside an abandoned can on the...

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