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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

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Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
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Rudist Clams

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Amanda Feuerstein with a nesting olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea). Feuerstein is a co-author of a study that surveyed algae, crustaceans, mollusks, and other epibionts that live on the turtles in the Pacific Ocean.
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Searching for Life -- Epibionts -- On Sea Turtles

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Like snails, clams, and even slugs, giant squids are all mollusks, with soft, fleshy bodies.
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Squid Relatives

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Pacific cephalopods illustrate the wide diversity among this group of mollusks.
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Squids and Cephalopod Diversity

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an oyster shell on a beach
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Surveying Life On Sea Turtles

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A sea toad from the deep waters off of Curacao.
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Collections from Curaçao

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Colorful Christmas tree worms
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Happy Holidays from the Ocean!

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Shell of an orange and white cone snail species.
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A New Cone Snail - Attenuiconus marileeae

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A reddish-orange nudibranch.
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A Baltic Sea Nudibranch

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Flame shells live in enormous colonies, but hidden in nests.
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Orange-Tentacled Flame Shell

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