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A crew works on creating a life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix
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Crew Works on Phoenix Model

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Phoenix rises out of the waters east of Cape Cod, MA, in April 2003.
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Can Right Whales Recover?

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This illustration shows how fishing lines attached to traps and buoys on the ocean floor present a potentially deadly hazard to North Atlantic right whales.
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How Whales Become Entangled

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Close-up of a 17th century painting shows how whales were brought ashore for processing and their blubber rendered into marketable oil.
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Basque Whalers

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Illustration of the extinct ammonite, related to the modern squid.
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Ammonite

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Giant squid have eight arms but use their two long feeding tentacles to seize prey.
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Giant Squid Anatomy

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The tough serrated ring around the opening grips the squid’s prey.
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Giant Squid Sucker

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These corals are dead—smothered in sediments and overgrown with algae.
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Dead Coral Overgrown with Algae

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This Marine National Monument protects a chain of atolls and reefs 1,931-kilometers (1,200-miles) long.
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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument

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Close-up photograph of translucent coral polyps, showing the symbiotic algae living inside.
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Close-up of a Coral Polyp

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Photograph of a many-armed sea star with maroon and white feathery-looking arms, with a deep red sea fan in the background.
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Feather Star

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Published in 1882 by Yale Professor A.E. Verrill, this is the first scientific illustration of a giant squid.
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First Scientific Illustration of Giant Squid

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