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Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.
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Fossil Mosasaur Skull

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A screenshot of a map with links to stories on the side.
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Smithsonian Ocean Optimism Around the World

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two plesiosaurs hunt
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Plesiosaur on the Hunt

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A sea turtle swims with its arms wide.
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Turtle in Flight

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A clutch bag made from fish skin and decorated with blue floral patterns.
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Indigo Katazome Dyed Fish Leather Clutch

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a larval fish fans its pectoral fins
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Baby Searobin

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A female anglerfish larva from the Linophrynidae family collected in the northern region of the Gulf of Mexico. © 2016 DEEPEND/ Dante Fenolio 
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A female anglerfish larva from the Linophrynidae family

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In this photo, the jellyfish Pandea rubra may have been surprised by a camera light or in a defensive state, causing it to contract its red mantle and reveal its complex muscle anatomy.
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Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish

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Like a typical jelly, the tentacles of Haliscera biglowi trail behind it as it moves, causing water flow to push small organisms into the path of the jelly’s deadly stinging grip.
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Stinging Grip

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This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria), a type of marine crustacean, is surrounded by her young inside the hollowed out barrel-shaped body cavity of a salp.
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Extreme Parenting

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Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.
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Mucus Home

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Cystisoma (a type of hyperiid crustacean) has one huge pair of eyes.
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Giant Eyes

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