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A female manatee and her calf are captured on film foraging in seagrass off the coast of Brazil.
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Female Manatee Foraging with a Calf on Her Back

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Scientist Kevin Raskoff processes samples of DNA
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Building a Database

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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On Biodiversity: Understanding its Meaning and Importance

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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

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Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.
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Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

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Grey Whale

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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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Deploying GLAD Drifters

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Photo of a sperm whale just below the water's surface.
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Sperm Whale, Dominica

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a woman's hands close a tin of sardines near a pile of empty cans
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Nimble Fingers: the Women Behind Maine’s Canneries

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Sylvia Earle on a beach
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Sylvia Earle’s Algae Epic

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a crochet radiolarian
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Make Your Own: Radiolarian

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Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.
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Helpful Herbivores

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