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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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a diver in blue water
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Blue Water Diving with WHOI

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a siphonophore
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Encounters with Bioluminescent Creatures

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A screenshot from video showing researchers collecting snapping shrimp off Moorea.
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Slurping Shrimp near Moorea

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A screenshot from the video showing a giant barrel sponge.
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What Makes Sponges Grow?

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A photo of Oceana's ice class research vessel, the Hanse Explorer, on the Baltic Sea.
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Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

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White abalone
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White Abalone In Danger

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants

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A ribbon worm curled up in a mud flat.
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The Search for an Elusive Ribbon Worm

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Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.
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Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

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Researchers adopted the “yabbie pump,” the long silver tool shown here, from Australian fishing gear.
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Collecting Shallow-Water Specimens with the "Yabbie Pump"

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
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Reef Monitoring Structure

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