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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Jelly Critters: Gelatinous zooplankton

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A brown sea hare sits in shallow ocean water.
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Sea Hare in the Intertidal Zone

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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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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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Aeolid Nudibranch Defense

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A brachiopod looks like a clam, but they aren't closely related.
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A Modern Day Brachiopod

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This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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Shrimp hides in the sargassum

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A female giant squid being prepared for display.
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Female Giant Squid

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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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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 woman standing in front of a barge
Article

Mary Rice: A Force of Nature

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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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Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Corals and Coral Reefs

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