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Twin-spot snappers are curious top predators on Pacific coral reefs, eating a variety of fishes, shrimps, crabs, and snails among others, and are usually around 2.5 feet long.
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Curious Bohar

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Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.
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Are You My Mommy?

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A rendering of an ocean scene as it may have looked 65 million years ago, when an astroid fell to Earth and triggered a mass extinction event.
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Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (65 Million Years Ago)

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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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The fins of the frogfish are perfect for creeping around in the algae and stalking unsuspecting prey.
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Frogfish Histrio histrio

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The Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems site in France was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2008. The site features an exceptional diversity of coral and fish species and a continuum of habitats from mangroves to se
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Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems, France

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A diagram of a shark's six highly refined senses: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism
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Shark Senses

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X-ray image of a slender snipe eel
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X-Ray Image of a Slender Snipe Eel

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Smithsonian Zoologist Dr. Clyde Roper in front of the museum's stored cephalopod collection.
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Smithsonian Cephalopod Collection

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A clutch bag made from fish skin, decorated with a large flower created with collaged shapes cut from fish leather.
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Hezhen Fish Skin Painting Clutch

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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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