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Seaside sparrow chicks beg for food from their nest
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A Nest of Begging Chicks

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A photo of a tern's silhouette against an orange sky.
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Common Tern Silhouette, Nickerson Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

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Smithsonian zoologist Dr. Steve Cairns named and described this deep-sea coral species, Stephanocyathus paliferus, now preserved at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Corals at the Smithsonian

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Seahorse couples (such as these Hippocampus histrix) greet each other every morning with a unique dance that sometimes involves changing color. The couple promenades and pirouettes together for several minutes before separating for the rest of the day. The
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Dancing Seahorse Pairs

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The squidworm has 10 tentacle-like appendages on its head.
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The Squidworm - A New Species

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Students from Grady High School, part of the Georgia Aquarium Delegation, are researching the impacts of climate change on loggerhead sea turtles in the south Atlantic ocean.
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Georgia Aquarium Delegation

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Pygmy Seahorse Blends Into its Environment
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Eye to Eye With a Pygmy Seahorse

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This fish is using counterillumination to disappear. At left it stands out against the light above it. At right, with bioluminescent structures lit, it blends in.
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Fish Using Counterillumination

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This urchin (Echinocrepis rostrata) leaves tracks as it moves across the ocean floor.
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Deep-Sea Urchin

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The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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Charles W. Morgan

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The grasses and animals living in marshes help to filter water and stabilize shorelines, along with providing habitat for a variety of mammals, fish, shellfish and amphibians and a haven for migratory waterfowl.
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Wetlands to the Horizon

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The Sundarbans site in Bangladesh, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997, includes one of the largest remaining areas of mangroves in the world and supports a rich animal community.
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Sundarbans, Bangladesh

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