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![On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2006867613_b93836c1ed_b_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=XntAjGhQ)
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea
Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific.......![Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/1_08-P03-G12_1.jpg.webp?itok=lTjZPM-8)
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Corals and Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life,......![The Peninsula Valdes in Argentina was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The site is home to important breeding populations of the endangered southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and southern sea](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Peninsula-Valdez.jpg.webp?itok=IRpT8oUm)
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Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery
Marine World Heritage is a prestigious list of 50 marine ecosystems and......![After ocean scientists sort deep-sea coral samples into their different types, they measure and photograph the specimens.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/photographing_specimens_full.jpg.webp?itok=2kHGgZkN)
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Studying Deep-Sea Corals
What happens to deep-sea coral samples after they are collected? In this image......![Close-up photograph of translucent coral polyps, showing the symbiotic algae living inside.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/4_01_R01_G02-full_1.jpg.webp?itok=1qv0Skn_)
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Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching
Tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthellae live in the tissues of many...![Colorful fishes throng a reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/800px-Nwhi_-_French_Frigate_Shoals_reef_-_many_fish_0.jpg.webp?itok=7oNzeQ14)
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Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals
From parrotfish that cover themselves in a blanket of their own mucus to tiny...![A bluefin trevally swims in Hawaii’s Maro Coral Reef, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/NWHI-full_1.JPG.webp?itok=Em09GF_n)
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Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened
Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of...![A Pontoh pygmy seahorse A Pontoh pygmy seahorse](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/9_-_Hippocampus_pontohi_-_1000px.jpg.webp?itok=JvdxJnqt)
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10 Things You Never Knew About Seahorses
By Lindsay Aylesworth, Project Seahorse The day I stepped into my......![Coral scientist Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a deep-sea coral bed off the coast of Hawaii.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/deep_sea_coral_community_full.jpg.webp?itok=iVxQ0pym)
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