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Monk seal pup
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A Mediterranean Monk Seal Pup

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With all the talk of ocean calamities are ocean scientists and communicators making the same mistake as Chicken Little?
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Chicken Little

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Charley Potter, Marine Mammals Collection Manager, holding a dolphin skull at the Museum Support Center. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses a collection of hundreds of whale earwax plugs.
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Charley Potter

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A view through a microscope of animals collected on an ARMS.
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ARMS Sample Before Cleaning

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A scanning electron micrograph of a mud dragon.
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Mud Dragon

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Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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Seagrass Meadow

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Two skulls belonging to extinct marine mammal herbivores used in the new study, both from the Smithsonian’s collections.
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Marine Mammal Herbivore Skulls

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A giant sea spider on octocoral
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Giant Sea Spider

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A shark swims above.
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A Shark's Toothy Grin

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Clark studying a shark jaw
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Eugenie Clark with Shark Jaw

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One of ten robots that examined an area of 800 cubic kilometers in northern Monterey Bay, over the course of 24 days, in 2006.
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Slocum Glider

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Leftwich and her team have spent hours filming captive sea lions at Smithsonian’s National Zoo, trying to get clear video footage of the animals clapping so they can examine the way their flippers move from frame to frame. 
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Leftwich at the Zoo Observing Sea Lions

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