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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.
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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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pancakes of ice cover the ocean
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Winter Under the Waves

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This magnified photo provides a close-up look at copepods—tiny crustaceans that right whales feed on.
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Copepods: Right Whale Food

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In the 19th century, many women wore tight corsets that were stiffened with stays made from baleen.
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Whale Products in Fashion

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This illustration shows whalers of the early 1800s with their highly profitable catch.
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Whalers in the early 1800s

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Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation
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Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

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These corals are dead—smothered in sediments and overgrown with algae.
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Dead Coral Overgrown with Algae

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A close up view of Phoenix and the rough patches of skin known as callosities that are found on all North Atlantic right whales.
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Phoenix’s Callosities

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Carrie Bow Cay field station sits in the blue and turquoise waters of Belize.
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A History of the Carrie Bow Cay Station

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A coral reef covered by silt and sand in the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Coral Reef Covered by Silt and Sand

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This orange boring sponge (Cliona varians) overgrows several coral species at Panama's Smithsonian Tropical Studies Institute.
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Ocean Acidification Excites Boring Sponges

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