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Screenshot from the "Masters of Disguise" video showing a spotted octopus on the seafloor.
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Masters of Disguise

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Thumbnail of a cartoonish octopus.
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Why the Octopus Brain is so Extraordinary

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A screenshot from the video showing a bioluminescent seastar.
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The Weird, Wonderful World of Bioluminescence

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals

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A marine iguana looks off in the distance.
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Marine Iguanas: One Species at a Time

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A blue parrotfish hides among coral.
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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

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A school of bluefin tuna
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The Great Pacific Migration of Bluefin Tuna

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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

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A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean

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This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

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