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A map showing different refuge and conservation areas.

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Vaquita Refuge

July 2020

Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio

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Black Swallower

October 2013

Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.

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Spinner Dolphins

August 2013

Emperor penguins are the largest of the penguin species and can grow to be 100 pounds.

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Emperor Penguins on the Ice

January 2016

This coordinated group of gliders were used off the coast of Monterey Bay, CA. Programmed to behave like groups of animals that function together in the wild, the robots can decide where to go and how to move in order to get the best data possible with in

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Coordinated Glider Fleet

August 2017

Known as “viperfish”, these cryptic fish use their giant teeth to prey on other fish and can grow to be 2 feet long (24 inches).

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Midnight Hunter

March 2016

A crab with numerous

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Decorator Crab

December 2017

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.

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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

September 2014

Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to scientists through a GPS satellite. Some of the 5.7 million data points about the drifters locations are seen in this map of the Gulf.

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Tracking CARTHE Drifters

February 2014

A golden bass with sand in the background.

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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

June 2015

"This shot was taken during a dusk dive in Southern Leyte in the Philippines. I ended the dive with an amazing sunset," wrote Paul Cowell of his winning image.

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Surfacing into a Sunset

May 2015

Drifters, Dye, and Drones: How can you follow 3.19 million barrels of spilled oil? Researchers with GoMRI's CARTHE project have set out drifters—big and small—that relay their GPS locations every five minutes. These data can help scientists understand

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Drifters, Dye, and Drones

February 2015