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A red scorpionfish
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Venomous Spikes

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Fish Illustrations

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a trigger fish swims around a coral reef
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The Incredible Diversity of Fish: How Form Equals Function

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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Juvenile plane-head filefish

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Mistaken Point New Foundland
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Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time

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Colorful fishes throng a reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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a coelacanth specimen and Smithsonian scientists
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Coelacanth and Scientists

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A weedy seadragon
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Weedy Seadragon

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an old museum display of a coelacanth
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Historical Coelacanth Display

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

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a blue larval fish with fanning spines
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Larval Cyclopsetta

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