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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage

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Why Do We Explore the Ocean?

November 2009

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An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.

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Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes

August 2017

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