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The West Norwegian Fjords's two fjords, among the world's longest and deepest, are considered archetypical fjord landscapes and among the most scenically outstanding anywhere.
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West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord, Norway

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Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

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The robotic glider Scarlet Knight
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Robotic Glider and Barnacles

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A Smithsonian scientist with a whale fossil he excavated
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Panama Expedition Success

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Olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) are the smallest marine turtle, living in warm waters close to shore as adults. Female olive ridleys take part in mass nestings that can involve 150,000 individual turtles crawling up a beach at night to find a
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Olive Ridley Turtle

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Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are the largest sea turtles, growing as long as six and a half feet (2 m) and weighing some 2,000 pounds (900 kg). They’re unlike the other marine turtles in two important ways: they have a thick leathery carapa
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Leatherback Turtle

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The Papahanaumokuakea site in the United States was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010. The site is a vast isolated cluster of small low-lying islands and atolls surrounded by ocean that provides safe habitat for endangered species like the green
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Papahanaumokuakea, United States

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A hawksbill turtle in the waters of the Seychelles.
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Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles

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Ari Friedlaender, a research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab, tags a blue whale.
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Tagging a Blue Whale

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several marine reptiles swim in the shallows
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Triassic Shallows

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A newly hatched leatherback turtle moves in the sand.
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Habitat for Leatherback Turtles

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A crocodile sits in water at Sundarbans National Park in India.
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Sundarbans National Park, India

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