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Photo of a Hawaiian monk seal on the beach, with the ocean in the background.
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The Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal

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“It’s quite normal for this type of goby to sit still on hard coral like this. I spotted the first of these very small fish and set up my camera for the shot. Just as I was about to take a picture, a second goby came out of nowhere and sat on the first
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Gobies on Coral, Near Marsa Alam, Egypt

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This colony of <em>Rosacea</em> may look like a single jellyfish, but it is actually a large group of smaller siphonophores clustered and living together.
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Jellyfish, or Siphonophore Colony?

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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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A Socotra cormorant dries its wings on the shore at the&nbsp;Socotra Archipelago in Yemen.
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Socotra Archipelago, Yemen

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A great white shark gaping its jaws at the surface of the water; gaping is used as a form of communication in sharks
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Gaping Jaws of a Great White Shark

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An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

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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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'Blue Marble' satellite image of the Earth
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'Blue Marble' Image of the Earth

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A large group of dancers from the island of Tokelau dance during fiafia, evening entertainment)
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Water is Rising: Pacific Islands, Art, and Climate Change

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This raven routinely observed master carver Douglas Chilton as he shaped the canoe.
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Raven Watches the Carver

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Phoenix’s entanglement badly injured her right lip, leaving a distinctive scar from that ordeal.
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Beware of Fishing Gear

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