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White abalone
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White Abalone In Danger

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Giant clams are one of the many wonders of coral reefs. They can grow up to five feet wide, weigh over 400 pounds, and live for 100 years!
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Restocking Giant Clams

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A blue shark, with a copepod attached to its dorsal fin, coasts through waters near New England.
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Blue Shark

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Oikopleura gorskyi is a rare deep-water species of larvacean
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Deep-Water Larvacean

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A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
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You Light Up My World!

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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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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a man with a hard helmet in a cave
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Adaptation in the Extremes: What Scale Worms Teach Us About Evolution

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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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A Better Way to Measure Marine Life

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the interior of an oyster shell with a pearl
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How Oysters Create the Ocean’s Gems

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A reddish-orange nudibranch.
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A Collage of Nudibranch Colors

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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