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Ocean - A Dance About Science and Conservation

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This tentacle belongs to a blue button. While it has a central “float” with streaming tentacles like typical jellyfish, the blue button is a colony of many small hydroid animals.
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Blue Button Tentacle

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“The southern elephant seal is a truly restrained behemoth. Males can grow to be five times larger than females, up to 5,000 pounds. This elephant seal may look fierce, but he was simply yawning over and over in the wave-wash. This allowed me to try mult
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Southern Elephant Seal, Gold Harbour, South Georgia

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Tropical hatchetfish, like the one shown in this X-ray photograph, live in the dark depths of the ocean. Like many other deep-sea fishes, they have large eyes and bioluminescent spots on their bellies.
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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

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Two Adélie penguins face each other while lying on ice.
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Adélie Penguins Face Off

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X-ray image of a long-spined porcupine fish
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X-Ray Image of a Long-Spined Porcupine Fish

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10 grains of star shaped sand collected from southern Japan
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Star Sand Grains Collected from Southern Japan

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Henry the Fish is made completely out of colorful plastic that washed up on Oregon beaches.
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Washed Ashore: From Beach Trash to Ocean Art

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An artist sketches the preserved bones of a specimen in the Smithsonian's collection.
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Flippers, Jawbones, and Blowholes: Marine Specimens Inspire Artists

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A tiny yellow goby living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan
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Portraits of Planet Ocean: The Photography of Brian Skerry

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Happy World Ocean Day!
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Coral Letters: A Message from the Corals of Curacao

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What is a Coral Reef? Elementary School

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