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The head of one bottlenose dolphin and the fin of another are visible above turquoise water in the Potomac River
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A Dive into Dolphin Data: The History of Bottlenose Dolphins in the Potomac River

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Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.
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How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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a woman with short black hair and a long necklace of pearls sits in front of a microscope and holds a small button coral
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Joan Murrell Owens and her Button Corals

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a neon purple jellyfish
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Live Jellyfish Make Splash in Marine Education

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a bull shark in a net
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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Surveying Life On Sea Turtles

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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Caribbean reef sharks swim over a coral reef in the Bahamas.
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Ocean Portal's Top Shark Resources

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a lamprey's suction mouth opens to show a disk of pointed teeth
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7 Ocean Parasites Worth Celebrating on World Parasite Day

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North Atlantic right whales and ocean-going vessels often cross paths.
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Slow Down for Right Whales

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