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A harp seal in icy water
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Harp Seal

Harp seals depend on seasonal ice during the breeding season. Their populations may...
A fur seal in kelp
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Fur Seal

Warming climate, changing ocean chemistry, and overfishing threaten kelp forests...
A school of Atlantic bluefin tuna
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna are caught in the wild and fattened in pens for...
A translucent pteropod swims freely in the open ocean with a black background.
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Shelled Pteropod

Changes in ocean chemistry destroy the shelled pteropods that this “naked sea...
Phoenix Islands protected area
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Phoenix Islands

Unlike most coral reefs, those of the Phoenix Islands are protected from pollution...
Adult green sea turtles spend most of their time grazing in seagrass meadows.
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Green Turtle in Seagrass

Adult green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) spend most of their time grazing in...
A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open.
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Mouth Agape Comb Jelly

A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open. Beroid comb...
A newly hatched leatherback turtle moves in the sand.
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Habitat for Leatherback Turtles

Endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles now have nearly 42,000 square miles of...
Photo Spread showing a shrimp cleaning a fishes mouth from Citizens of the Sea
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Open Wide: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

"Open Wide" spread from Citizens of the Sea by Nancy Knowlton. ...
Sea Turtle
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Green Sea Turtle

A diet of algae and seagrasses gives this turtle (Chelonia mydas) greenish colored...
Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

Red Pigfish (Bodianus unimaculatus) and Blue Mao-Mao (Scorpis violacea) school at...
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