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An image of a giant anemone with yellow-tipped white tentacles.
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Giant Anemone

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Dr. Candy Feller standing knee deep in a mangrove forest.
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Dr. Candy Feller in the Field

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Earth as seen from a satellite.
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Earth as seen from a satellite

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Buccaneers divide their treasure under the watchful eye of Captain Morgan.
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Buccaneers from "Pirates of Panama, or the Buccaneers of America"

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Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe.
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Carving the Canoe

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What is coral? The answer is coral is an animal. This cutaway diagram of a coral polyp shows the location of its photosynthetic algae, or zooxanthellae, which coral needs to survive.
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What Is Coral? A Coral Polyp and Zooxanthellae

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a closeup of many mangrove pneumatophores
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Like Breathing Through A Straw

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Found 1,751 m (5,745 ft) below the surface of Hawaii’s waters in 2007, this orange bamboo coral is 1.2–1.5 m (4–5 ft) tall.
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New Genus of Bamboo Coral

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On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.
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Ice Melt in Iceland

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This jewel squid (Histioteuthis bonnellii) lives above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Jewel Squid

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Photograph of a translucent red-orange comb jelly against a black sea.
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Red Mid-Water Comb Jelly

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A Smithsonian specimen helped identify a new family of deep sea squid with long spindly legs.
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Bigfin Squid

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