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“The male weedy seadragon is entrusted with the pink, fertilized eggs once mating has been completed. It is his task to incubate them until their hatching, approximately eight weeks later. The day this photo was taken, the weather and conditions were unu
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Weedy Seadragon, Flinders pier, Flinders, Victoria, Australia

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A sea toad from the deep waters off of Curacao.
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Sea Toad Specimen from Caribbean

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A veined octopus sits inside a vacant bivalve shell, which it uses as a portable shelter, in the Philippines. This is one of the few examples—if not the only example—of tool use in invertebrates.
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Veined Octopus at Anilao Batangas Pier, Philippines

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Illustration of a four-legged proto-whale with webbed feet.
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Early Whale with Webbed Feet

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Hedbergella sliteri - this specific specimen is the "holotype" for this species. That means it is the reference point for what all members of the species should look like.
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Hedbergella sliteri

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Dolphins swimming among oily patches in the Gulf of Mexico
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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

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The fluorescent shortnose greeneye fish.
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A Shortnose Greeneye Fish Aglow

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Caribbean reef sharks swim over a coral reef in the Bahamas.
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Caribbean Reef Shark

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Scientists remove remove the whale fossil plaster jacket from the r
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Excavating the Fossil

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The red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Gverm).
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Gracilaria vermiculophylla

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a fossil of an ancient arthropod
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The Lace Crab

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an ancient whale scavenges in a kelp forest
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Kelp Forest of the Neogene

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