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A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to grow corals before transferring them to a larger tank. You can see several staghorn coral colonies - it has a branching structure and the white tips indicate healthy, new g

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Tank at St. Lucie County Aquarium

A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to...

Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.

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Are You My Mommy?

Human infants often already resemble their parents. Visitors coo, "Oh, she has your...

The long toothy rostrum or “saw," which gives the smalltooth sawfish its common name, is clearly seen in this X-ray image.

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X-Ray Image of a Smalltooth Sawfish

The long toothy rostrum or “saw” gives sawfish their common name. They use the...

An adult leatherback turtle makes its way back to shore from the ocean.

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Female Leatherback Turtle Crawls From The Sea To Nest

"Leatherback turtles are the oldest, deepest-diving and widest-ranging of all sea...

A female manatee and her calf are captured on film foraging in seagrass off the coast of Brazil.

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Female Manatee Foraging with a Calf on Her Back

"Wild manatees in Belize are not used to humans. Living miles offshore in...

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Mariana Trench

If you want to explore the depths of the ocean, you may want to go to the deepest...

A blenny fish against both a white and black backdrop, where you can see its beautiful color pattern.

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A New Fish DROP-ping In

By diving in the Curasub, Smithsonian researchers with the Deep Reef Observation...

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Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

These watercolor sketches of Trapezia crabs were drawn by Frederick Bayer, a former...

400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.

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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones...

A summertime channel carries melted ice to the sea. Antarctica and Greenland lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year from such melting.

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Ice Melt at the Poles

It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion...

In some reefs, small fishes such as this broad-barred goby protect corals by eating invading seaweeds.

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Coral Goby Cleans Coral

One of the first signs of a sick coral reef is seaweed creeping across...

Submarine pilot Bruce Brandt secures ARMS to the outside of the submersible Curasub so it can deploy ARMS on the seafloor.

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ARMS Deployment from a Submarine

Submarine pilot Bruce Brandt secures ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures)...

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Mariana Trench

A New Fish DROP-ping In

Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

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Coral Goby Cleans Coral

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Are You My Mommy?

X-Ray Image of a Smalltooth Sawfish

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Female Manatee Foraging with a Calf on Her Back

Mariana Trench

A New Fish DROP-ping In

Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

Ice Melt at the Poles

Coral Goby Cleans Coral

ARMS Deployment from a Submarine

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