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an illustration of two gannets
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Seabirds of America

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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Crave Bone

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a loggerhead Sea Turtle
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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an illustration of pufferfish species and their relatives
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Pufferfishes and Their Relatives

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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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A vaquita pops its head out of the water.
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Swimming Vaquita

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Two Catsharks with a black background
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Leopard Catsharks

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Tardigrade Under the Microscope
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Psychedelic Tardigrade

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Of the eight million metric tons of plastic dumped in the ocean every year, much of it ends up on beaches like this one in Tanzania. But some companies are working to change that high statistic.
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Trash On a Tanzanian Beach

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Scientists recently discovered the Christmas tree coral (Antipathes dendrochristos) off the southern California coast.
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New Christmas Tree Coral

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