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The staghorn coral is listed as Threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. It is one of 22 coral species listed.
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Staghorn Coral

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A puffin sits on a rock.
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The Return of the Puffins

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The largest of the Atlantic shearwaters, Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis) can often be spotted by its casual wingbeat and gliding flight.
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Cory's Shearwaters Bicker

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Band-rumped Storm-petrels (Oceanodroma castro) are quite a bit larger and heavier than Wilson's storm petrels, but share their amazing sense of smell, which they use to find food that may be miles away.
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Band-rumped Storm-petrels

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The spanish dancer is one of the largest species and best swimmers of the nudibranchs.
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The Spanish Dancer

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Antarctica is almost entirely covered by ice sheets up to two miles (3 km) thick, which contain roughly 70% of the world’s freshwater.
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Ross Sea Ice Shelf

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wooden ships are swept into Providence, RI during a storm
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The Great Gale

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How well could you eat with a saw on your face? If you were a sawshark, you couldn’t eat without one! Sawsharks are named for their long snouts, which have sharp teeth protruding from either side. They attack their prey by slashing these “saws” from
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Sawshark

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This young Gonatus squid is still translucent, making it tricky for predators to spot it.
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Deep Sea Squid

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This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria), a type of marine crustacean, is surrounded by her young inside the hollowed out barrel-shaped body cavity of a salp.
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Extreme Parenting

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Aegina citrea are stealth predators that push their tentacles ahead of their body or bell as they swim through the water.
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Ocean Lemon Drop

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Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.
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Mucus Home

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