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A school of akule (Hawaiian for bigeye scad) explode into a camera's frame.
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Akule Explosion

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An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.
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Arrow-worm

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Seagrass species come in many different shapes and sizes, as illustrated by this conceptual diagram of some common seagrass species.
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Seagrass Diversity

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Rhinochimaera swimming in the Dark.
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Rhinochimera

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Karen Romano Young's 3rd AntarcticLog
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AntarcticLog 3

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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Bleached Coral On Mesoamerican Reef

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Sparrows Send a Message: Seabirds, like the often-photographed pelican, can be hurt when oil soaks their feathers during an oil spill. But what about birds that live on land? A group of GoMRI researchers are studying seaside sparrows, birds that live in ma
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Sparrows Send A Message

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This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria), a type of marine crustacean, is surrounded by her young inside the hollowed out barrel-shaped body cavity of a salp.
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Extreme Parenting

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Photo of a mountain of billiard balls made from ivory.
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Ivory Billiard Balls

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This 1874 illustration of California gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) shows a group of individuals at the edge of their modern day range in the North Pacific Ocean, blocked from traveling further east into Arctic waters by thick ice barriers.
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California Grays Among the Ice

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A screenshot from the video of a coral head.
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How Coral Reefs Spawn

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