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Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.
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Moon Jellyfish With Oil & Mucus

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An underwater photo of Southern Bluefin Tuna swimming above a fish farm net.
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Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)

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A sea monster attacks a ship in an illustration for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
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Sea Monster Attack

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Large numbers of grey reef sharks were observed at Jarvis Island, an uninhabited Pacific island, during the 2010 Pacific RAMP expedition of the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai.
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Reef Sharks Passing Through

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

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Overfishing is leading to an abundance of less desirable species like jellyfish.
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Jellyfish Sandwiches

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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Smithsonian Marine Collections on Google Earth

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A pair of sea butterflies float in the Arctic ocean.
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A Pair of Sea Butterflies

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An algal bloom, also known as a red tide, has converted the ocean's surf to a red color
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Red Tide

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A squat lobster and blackbelly rosefish find shelter on a Lophelia pertusa coral reef off the southeastern United States.
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Coral Reef Lobster and Fish

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A red deep-sea fish specimen.
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A Fish that Looks Like a Whale

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