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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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Magellanic penguin parents typically lay two eggs under a bush or in a burrow, taking turns swimming out to sea to catch food for their chicks.
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Penguin Health Equals Ocean Health

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A bull shark's ability to prey on many different species is helped by its capacity to survive in both freshwater and saltwater.
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Smithsonian Stunt Turns Ocean Hall into Living Aquarium

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A humpback whale breaching.
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Bacteria on Whale Skin Tell a Tale of Health and Sickness

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Grey reef sharks are among the most versatile and tough predators on a Pacific coral reef, but they are also among the most vulnerable species, as they are threatened by wasteful fishing practices like shark finning.
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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

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A walrus sits on top of ice.
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The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

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Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

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A newly established black mangrove sits in a field of salt marsh near the northern limit of mangroves in Florida. Mangroves have been expanding near their northern limit in Florida and the expansion is linked to a reduction in the frequency of ex
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Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places

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A dive safety officer keeps a close eye on divers from the surface.
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Diving in the Middle of Nowhere

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax: What You Can Learn From Strange Collections

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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Coral Under Pressure: Monitoring Bleaching In Real Time

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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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In the Arctic, the Times, They Are a-Changin: You Can Pitch in to Understand How

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