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Known as “viperfish”, these cryptic fish use their giant teeth to prey on other fish and can grow to be 2 feet long (24 inches).
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Midnight Hunter

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Diagram showing gills on a crab absorbing nutrients
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Crab Gills Absorb Nutrients

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Dr. Maya Yamato and colleague John Ososky dissect the head of a deceased stranded fin whale in the Chesapeake Bay to examine soft tissue associated with the ears. In 2015, Yamato’s team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural H
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Learning From A Stranded Fin Whale

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Discovered in 2004 and named in 2009, Gersemia juliepackardae coral lives on seamounts in the northeast Pacific Ocean at depths of 500-2,000 m (1,640-6,562 ft).
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New Soft Coral

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This bubblegum coral has a fanlike shape. It is growing 1,310 m (4,298 ft) deep on the Davidson Seamount.
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Bubblegum Coral

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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

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Professor Scott Glenn at Smithsonian with Historic Underwater Glider
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Scarlet Knight Showcased at Smithsonian

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The Ha Long Bay site in Vietnam was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The site's 1,600 islands and islets form a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars surrounded by species-rich waters, including a tremendous diversity of marine algae and o
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Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

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A great white shark next to a giant megatooth shark
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How Big are Great White Sharks?

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a close up view of the treads on a car tire
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Check the Pressure

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Pelicans Roost at oil spill "ground zero" two years later.
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Pelicans Roost at Oil Spill "Ground Zero"

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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Fish Feeding in Seagrass

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