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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.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2006867613_b93836c1ed_b_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=XntAjGhQ)
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea
Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific.......![Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/1_08-P03-G12_1.jpg.webp?itok=lTjZPM-8)
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Corals and Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life,......![Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Team_Breakfast_Pyenson_small.jpg.webp?itok=HD1SScLI)
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A Squalodontid Success
On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal......![A map of the early European whaling site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Fig_1_-_Overview_Map.jpg.webp?itok=qSY4typn)
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Archaeologists Investigate an Early Whaling Community
For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologist, William Fitzhugh, has been......![A bluefin trevally swims in Hawaii’s Maro Coral Reef, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/NWHI-full_1.JPG.webp?itok=Em09GF_n)
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Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened
Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of...![X-ray image of a winghead shark](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/winghead.jpg.webp?itok=e-uTInkZ)
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X-Rays of Fish Reveal Diversity
Scientists in the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of......![Small red hyperiid.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/LanceolaD410T-006.jpeg.webp?itok=LpT9zxlE)
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