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A pink, white and black colored boxing crab holds two anemones in its claws.
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Boxing Crab

The boxer crab or pom-pom crab gets its name from the two anemones it holds in...
A purple jellyfish
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Stinging Beauty

Don't let this jellyfish's beauty fool you—even glancing one of...
A clown fish peeking out from its anemone home
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Peeking from the Anemone

The clownfish peeking from this anemone had to earn his place among the stinging...
Jellyfish illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Semaeostome Jellyfish

The Semaeostomes (the name translates to “flag mouths”) are an order of...
Explore the different cultures of the territory between the Arctic and Pacific oceans. The area is home to over 150,000 Indigenous residents, whose diverse languages and cultures are both a link to history and the foundation for contemporary lives.
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Smithsonian Alaska Native Collections

Explore the different cultures of the territory between the Arctic and Pacific...
A stormy sea lashes the village of Shismaref, Alaska, where the coastline has eroded 30–90 m (100–300 ft) in the past 30 years.
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Shismaref, Alaska

A stormy sea lashes the village of Shismaref, Alaska, where the coastline has...
Magellanic penguins on the beach in Punta Tombo, Argentina
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Punta Tombo Penguins

Every breeding season, some 400,000 Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus)...
The mauve stinger is a glowing jellyfish.
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Glowing Mauve

The mauve stinger’s (Pelagia noctiluca) name in German means “night light,”...
Two of the worlds largest jellyfish, the lions mane jellyfish, float together.
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Extreme Jellyfish

The lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) is the largest among the jelly...
Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore.
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Floating Antarctic Comb Jelly

Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore. The rainbow...

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