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a blue larval cusk eel with a protruding gut
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Spilled Guts

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Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

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Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.
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Helpful Herbivores

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Smithsonian scientist who discovered new species in her laboratory
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Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

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a comparison of alive and preserved larvae specimens
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Alive and Dead

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a fish's mouth is opened to reveal a crustacean in the place of the tongue
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A Tongue Imposter

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ear bones of a grouper fish
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A Grouper's Ear Stone

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a juvenile swordfish next to an adult
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Growing up a Swordfish

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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

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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Parasitic Worms in a Fish

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a blue larval fish with fanning spines
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Blackwater Divers Illuminate Sea Life at Night

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Photo of sockeye salmon spawning.
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Sockeye Salmon, Adams River, British Columbia, Canada

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