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Venus fly-trap anemone in the Gulf of Mexico
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Venus Fly-Trap Anemone in the Gulf of Mexico

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Oil burns during a controlled fire May 6, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Burn

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A juvenile swimming crab sits on a bed of sargassum seaweed.
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Adult Swimming Crab

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The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

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The ocean plays an important role in our everyday lives—whether you live near the coast or not.
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Round Wave, Maui, Hawaii, USA

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The Macquarie Island site in Australia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie oceanic ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific p
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Macquarie Island, Australia

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Jacqueline Peta of Sealaska’s board of directors participates in the tree-cutting ceremony.
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Cutting Down the Tree

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The fringed baleen plates are easy to observe as this North Atlantic right whale skims the water’s surface while it feeds.
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Baleen in Action

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Powerful suckers stud the club at the end of the giant squid’s long feeding tentacle.
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Giant Squid Feeding Tentacle

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A sea monster attacks a ship in an illustration for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
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Sea Monster Attack

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A student helps deploy one of his school's adopted drifters for NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program.
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NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program

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sea lilies
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Sea Lilies

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