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A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded net. Discarded nets continue to fish long after they have been lost, devastating the local fish populations and choking the life out of the reef on which it becomes entangled
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Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

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The small larvae of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) settle and grow on the crustose coralline algae species Hydrolithon boergesenii.
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Coral Larvae Settling

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Large organisms, like these tunicates, live inside the recesses of a ship's hull while microscopic organisms form a film across all the painted surfaces on the boat.
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Tunicates On Hull of Boat

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Blue Crab walking in wet sand.
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Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

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A stormy sea lashes the village of Shismaref, Alaska, where the coastline has eroded 30–90 m (100–300 ft) in the past 30 years.
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Shismaref, Alaska

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Tapetail fish with long tail.
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Tapetail

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Captain William Kidd
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Captain Kidd on His Ship

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Captain William Kidd at Gardiner's Island
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Captain William Kidd

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Pirates capture the imagination of dreamers of all ages.
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Pirate reflection in mirror

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Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.
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Two New Sea Stars

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A skate is among the many bycatch species caught in this shrimp trawl net.
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Bycatch in Shrimp Net

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Dr. Carole Baldwin is Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Dr. Carole Baldwin

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