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Tomopteris's bristles produce yellow bioluminescence, a unusual color among midwater animals, nearly all of which make some sort of light.
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Glow Worms

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A Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), a species with a normal range in the North Atlantic, interacting with the native Brandt’s cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) sighted on the Farallon Islands, located off the coast of San Francisco, California in t
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Northern Gannet in the Pacific

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Illustrations of radiolarians from Ernst Haeckel.
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Radiolarians

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Haeckel discovered a species of rhizostome jellyfish in Bellagemma, Ceylon, in December 1881. Its form so impressed him that he used it as a model for ceiling decorations in his Villa Medusa home in Jena.
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Rhizostome Jellyfish

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Sand dollars (like those pictured in this set of illustrations) are flattened, burrowing sea urchins. Dead, sunlight-bleached specimens resemble silver coins, hence their common name. These figures portray a sand dollar’s lifecycle from larva to adult.
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Sea Urchins

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A puffin sits on a rock next to a puffin decoy.
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Puffin and Decoy

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Jellyfish illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Semaeostome Jellyfish

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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Siphonophores

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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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An estimated 5 tons of plastic are fed to albatross chicks each year at Midway Atoll.
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