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Screenshot from video with researchers on a ship collecting water.
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Working in the Dark

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A view of the island of Moorea.
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The Moorea Biocode Project

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Shark DNA Helps Catch Poachers

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.
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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

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A diver collects water samples.
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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

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The shell of a sea slug
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A Microscopic Identity Crisis

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Researcher Aimee Ellison tests samples for DNA barcoding at the Gump Field Station on Moorea.
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Testing DNA samples

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A diver on the reef near Moorea collects samples.
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Research Diver in Moorea

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