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Two sea lions interact amongst schools of small fish.
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Seal or Sea Lion?

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Breaching

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Close-up photograph looking into the gaping mouth of a golden brown sea lion, lying on the sand.
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Galapagos Sea Lion Yawning

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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A vaquita swim in the ocean.
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A History Entwined: Vaquita, Totoaba, Fishermen

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Giant drift nets, placed around the world’s oceans to catch commercial fish species, kill non-commercial animals just as efficiently, often taking far more of the latter for every useable species ensnared.
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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

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A view of the injured fluke belonging to Phoenix’s mother, Stumpy. It is not known what caused this injury. It possibly could have been an entanglement.
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Stumpy’s Tail

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Listen to what happens when researchers in a tiny boat are surrounded by huge North Atlantic Right Whales.
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North Atlantic Right Whale: One Species at a Time

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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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An Ancient Whale Skeleton, Unexcavated

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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A beluga whale
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Baby Beluga

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Two Southern Resident killer whales.
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Southern Resident Killer Whales

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