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Dr. Maya Yamato and colleague John Ososky dissect the head of a deceased stranded fin whale in the Chesapeake Bay to examine soft tissue associated with the ears. In 2015, Yamato’s team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural H
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Learning From A Stranded Fin Whale

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Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.
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Tiny, but Deadly

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Like a typical jelly, the tentacles of Haliscera biglowi trail behind it as it moves, causing water flow to push small organisms into the path of the jelly’s deadly stinging grip.
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Stinging Grip

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Aegina citrea are stealth predators that push their tentacles ahead of their body or bell as they swim through the water.
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Ocean Lemon Drop

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Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
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A Seashore Walk

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Portrait of Ángeles Alvariño
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Ángeles Alvariño

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A sunset off a dock
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Gulf Sunset

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"Ocean sunfish" by Mark Harris
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Ocean Sunfish

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A scanning electron micrograph of a mud dragon.
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Mud Dragon

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A Cirraturlid worm swims in the open ocean.
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Cirraturlid

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A piece of marine debris, in the form of a Spam container, found on the deep-sea floor of the Marianas Trench. 
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Marine Debris in Marianas Trench

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NMNH intern in the lab.
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It's All In the DNA

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