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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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A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

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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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A school of mahi mahi.
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From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi

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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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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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Like other cephalopods, the common cuttlefish (Sepia officials Linnaeus, 1758) possesses serious brain power.
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So You Think You're Smarter Than a Cephalopod?

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

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Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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