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The Smithsonian Community Crochet Reef
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The Smithsonian Community Reef

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A crown-of-thorns starfish in the Marianas Islands.
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Mystery Photo: Prickly Puzzler on the Reef

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This is the cover of the book Dampier wrote about his first trip around the world.
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Book Cover for Dampier's Account of his First Trip Around the World

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Photograph of a green sea slug, with white polka-dot-like markings and white-edged ruffly structures along the length of its back.
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Lettuce Sea Slug

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The 2012 Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center dive class stand in a group together
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Scientific Diving Students from the 2012 IBRC Program

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A deep red jellyfish, Crossota norvegica, floats in the water.
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Deep-Red Jellyfish

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Colorful layers of a microscopic foram.
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A Colorful Foram: Globigerinoides ruber

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Sea Turtle
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Green Sea Turtle

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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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Light refracts off the comb-rows of this ctenophore.
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Comb Jelly Reflecting Colors

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Photograph from above of two right whales, one touching the tip of its mouth to the back of the other..
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Two North Atlantic Right Whales

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Flame shells live in enormous colonies, but hidden in nests.
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Orange-Tentacled Flame Shell

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