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"Ocean sunfish" by Mark Harris
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Chasing a Basking Shark

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Wooden skeleton of an orca.
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This Whale Sculpture Was Modeled After a Beached Orca

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The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea

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Caribbean reef sharks swim over a coral reef in the Bahamas.
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Swimming With Sharks

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X-ray image of a winghead shark
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X-Ray Image of a Winghead Shark

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A school of grooved razorfish seen in x-ray imaging.
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X-Ray Image of Grooved Razorfish

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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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Dover Sole Skin
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Close-Up of Dover Sole Skin

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X-ray image of a longnose butterflyfish
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X-Ray Image of a Longnose Butterflyfish

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The long toothy rostrum or “saw," which gives the smalltooth sawfish its common name, is clearly seen in this X-ray image.
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X-Ray Image of a Smalltooth Sawfish

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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Crochet Reef
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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Reef

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