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Tuna caught in the Indian Ocean show the huge scale of commercial fishing.
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Tuna Fishing

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A coral reef covered by silt and sand in the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Coral Reef Covered by Silt and Sand

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A Coral Reef Watch satellite monitors the temperature of the world’s oceans.
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Coral Reef Watch Satellite

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The sun sets over the Smithsonian’s marine field station at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. For more than three decades, it has been home to the Smithsonian’s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Program.
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Sunset at Carrie Bow Cay

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This is one of about 200 species of moray eels that live in tropical and subtropical coral reefs.
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Guineafowl Moray

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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The Island of Moorea

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Comb jellies (such as this Bolinopsis species) are named for their combs: the rows of cilia lining their bodies that propel them through the ocean.
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Ctenophore Combs - Close Up

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A shining jingle shell on the sand.
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Jingle Shells

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A bright yellow long-snouted seahorse.
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A Cold-Water Seahorse

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A common dolphin with calf jump through the ocean.
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Common Dolphin and Calf

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A pod of Baird's beaked whales in the eastern North Pacific.
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Baird's Beaked Whales

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The eel-like Atlantic hagfish being measured out of water.
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Pacific Hagfish

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