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This is a series of images showing how a typical nightly courtship display would look like, where certain males initiate the display (2), others follow (3), and different species display their own unique “light shows” nearby (4 and 5).
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A typical nightly courtship display for P. annecohenae

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Map of South America highlighting Juan Fernandez Island off of the west coast, near Chile
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Map of Juan Fernandez Island

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With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.
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Seaside Sparrow Perches on Grass

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Cut of Atlantic Salmon on a Plate
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Cut of Atlantic Salmon

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Ruth Meadows holds a Chimaera, a strange looking distant relative of the shark.
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NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows

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A school of yellowfin surgeonfish feed near dusk off Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands.
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Yellowfin Surgeonfish

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A bird sits atop an outcrop of rocks surrounded by turbulent water.
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Offshore Rock Island

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An Isopod Full of Fish Blood
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Isopod Engorged With Blood

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Illustration of a giant squid versus a merman.
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Mermen? Sea Monks? Or Giant Squid?

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale

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A baleen plate with a drawing of a ship in paint
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Artful Baleen Plates

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