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Fecal Insights: How River Otters Help Us Understand Parasites and Ecosystem Health

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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This small drone helped scientists to follow a trail of pink dye tracking ocean movement below the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Following the Dye by Drone

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Shell of an orange and white cone snail species.
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A New Cone Snail - Attenuiconus marileeae

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A composite photograph of three of the crustaceans found living on olive ridley and green turtles in the Pacific.
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Crustacean Epibionts

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This 1890 painting of Charles Darwin is on display at the Turin Museum of Human Anatomy.
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Charles Darwin

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a phytoplankton in a swirl
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Phytoplankton

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A satellite image of the rivers and mangroves of the sundarbans
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Sundarbans from Space

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A screenshot from video showing illustrations of ancient coral reefs.
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Coral Reefs Changing Over Time

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Photo of a mountain of billiard balls made from ivory.
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Ivory Billiard Balls

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A jellyfish floating in the water.
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Jellyfish Floating

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An illustration of how slaves were arranged on slave ships.
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Slave Ship Diagram

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