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a wet river otter face
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Fecal Insights: How River Otters Help Us Understand Parasites and Ecosystem Health

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Biomes: Wild Arctic

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Giant Squid Caught on Camera

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What Was for Dinner?

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Twin-spot snappers are curious top predators on Pacific coral reefs, eating a variety of fishes, shrimps, crabs, and snails among others, and are usually around 2.5 feet long.
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Curious Bohar

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J. Murray Roberts studies and maps the cold-water corals known as Lophelia in the North Atlantic.
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Exploring the Blue Planet with J. Murray Roberts

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A screenshot from the video showing a small anemone through a microscope.
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Anemone Feeding Time

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an oyster shell on a beach
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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This small sea star, little more than an inch across, is orange on top and whitish underneath.
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Little Sea Star

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A live Acesta clam attached near the base of a small Callogorgia colony.
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Clam On Deep-sea Coral

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Many serpent stars spend their entire lives on a coral host.
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Serpent Star on Octocoral

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