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A screenshot from the video showing illustration of a whale at the surface of water at night.

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Life After Whale (On Whale Falls)

June 2017

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A humpback whale breaching.

Article

Bacteria on Whale Skin Tell a Tale of Health and Sickness

March 2014

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Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later

April 2012

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