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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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Divers at a shipwreck site
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Wood Under Sand: The Search for A Slave Shipwreck

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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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a blue negative of algae
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No Longer Anonymous: Anna Atkins and her Algae

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Illustrations of fish and crab from New Guinea
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New Guinea Fish and Crab

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After leaving Australia, Dampier and his men reached the western coast of New Guinea on New Year’s Day 1700. There Dampier observed birds that he had never seen before, like the “stately land-fowl” shown here.
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New Guinea Birds

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A Chevrolet Mako Corvette
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These Sleek, Sexy Cars Were All Inspired by Fish

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Eugenie Clark collecting specimens on a dive.
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Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady

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The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while crossing “La Grande Mer du Sud”—the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Ocean Currents

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As Dampier studied the plants he encountered in Australia, he wrote that they were “for the most part unlike any I had seen elsewhere.” In fact, nearly all the plants Dampier observed were entirely unknown to botanists at that time.
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More Australian Plants

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This is the cover of the book Dampier wrote about his first trip around the world.
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Book Cover for Dampier's Account of his First Trip Around the World

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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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