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A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
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Desmostylia

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A map of the Mid Ocean Ridge
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Marie Tharp Map

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Illustration of a real oarfish vs the Pokémon counterpart.
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Pokémon

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A large red research vessel among icy waters and snowy mountains
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The Laurence M. Gould

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The colorful parrotfish sculpture is made entirely of ocean plastic trash.
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Priscilla the Parrotfish

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These schools of colorful reef fish call Raja Ampat, the global centre of fish diversity, home.
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Cape Kri, Raja Ampat

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A shrimp boat fishes in the Gulf of Mexico
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A Gulf Shrimp Boat

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Duria Antiquior – A More Ancient Dorset, 1830

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A screenshot of a GIF showing Bart Simpson exclaiming "I have the answer!"
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Open Data Simpsons GIF

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax

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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Bleached Coral On Mesoamerican Reef

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This 1874 illustration of California gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) shows a group of individuals at the edge of their modern day range in the North Pacific Ocean, blocked from traveling further east into Arctic waters by thick ice barriers.
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California Grays Among the Ice

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