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a comparison of alive and preserved larvae specimens
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Alive and Dead

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a fish's mouth is opened to reveal a crustacean in the place of the tongue
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A Tongue Imposter

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A multi-colored map of the mid-Atlantic ride made from satellite imagery.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Crabs in the wild decorate with the things around them, like these anemones.
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Do You Like My Hat?

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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Bleached Coral On Mesoamerican Reef

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Trout cages in 30 feet of water.
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Feeding IMTA Trout

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Pile of Plastic Trash
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Plastic Trash Looms

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A shark nursery in a lagoon in the Pacific.
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Baby sharks in lagoon

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Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore.
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Floating Antarctic Comb Jelly

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Regulated fish waste dump sites can attract predators, such as these seagulls, fish, and even small sharks, which feed on the scraps.
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Seagulls at a Seafood Waste Site

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Curator and Research Scientist Lynne Parenti with student Shao-i Wang on a moped with fish collection gear
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Lynne Parenti NMNH Fishes Curator

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Benthic scientists are interested in organisms on the seafloor.
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The ‘Mud People'

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