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Humpback whales spend their summers feeding in cold, food-filled Arctic and Antarctic waters before swimming to warmer waters for the winter.
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Humpback Whales Going After Herring

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a light painted image of a red and white squid
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Light Painting of a Jellyfish

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A diagram of the different soil layers located at Hare Harbor, Quebec in 2008. Wood chips were located at the deepest layer, then whale bone, then codfish bones.
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Underwater Archaeological Stratigraphy

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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

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Small orange brittlestars on the coast of the Atlantic.
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An Invasive Brittlestar

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The Sian Ka'an site in Mexico was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1987. The site's name means "Origin of the Sky" in Mayan and contains tropical forests, mangroves, and marshes, as well as a large marine area intersected by the Caribbean Barrier Re
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Sian Ka'an, Mexico

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Researchers on a boat try to to catch an oiled pelican in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
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Netting an oiled pelican in the Gulf of Mexico

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Dr. Sylvia Earle
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Dr. Sylvia Earle Testifies on Gulf Oil Spill

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X-ray image of a long-spined porcupine fish
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X-Ray Image of a Long-Spined Porcupine Fish

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This whale is entangled in fishing gear. The inset shows how special fishing lines allow whales to escape such accidental entrapments.
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Fishing Gear Solutions

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This dog is helping researchers at the New England Aquarium in Boston detect scat (or poop) from North Atlantic right whales.
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The Search for Whale Poop

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Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
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Eocene Whales and Penguins Off the Coast of Peru

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