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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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Juvenile Clam with Tentacles
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Spaceship Mollusk

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Mangrove Salt Glands
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How Mangroves Deal with Saltwater

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Dover Sole Skin
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Close-Up of Dover Sole Skin

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Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult features: an eye and legs.
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Lobster Egg

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Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

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A close-up of tiny teeth on the common whelk's radula.
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A Snail's Rainbow Radula

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

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Sea squire illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Squirts

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Starfish—marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata—are famous for their ability to shed limbs as a means of defense and then regenerate the sacrificed part.
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Haeckel Starfish

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Valentinni's sharpnose puffer lives on Indo-Pacific coral reefs, where it shoals in groups of 10-100 puffers and feeds on algae and tunicates.
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Valentinni's Sharpnose Puffer

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