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Black men dredge for oysters in a boat
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The Bay of Opportunity and Hope

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A walrus sits on top of ice.
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The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

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A screenshot of the launch of the Raven Spirit canoe.
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The Official Canoe Launch

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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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Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank
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The Evolution of a Reef Aquarium

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Illustration of The Little Mermaid, mid-19th century.
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The Little Mermaid

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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The Puzzle of Ice Age Americans

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two young women gleefully race down a sandy hill
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Young Pettibone

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Pirate William Dampier's shipboard artist carefully recorded the species that Dampier found new and unusual.
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Australian Fish and Cuttlefish

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Pirates divide up the riches they plundered.
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Sharing the Booty

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The "Lower Invertebrates" exhibit in Smithsonian Institution Building in 1901 included models of a giant squid and an octopus.
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Still Blue After a Century of Ocean Science and Exploration

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants

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