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Blue Dragon nudibranchs are very common to the southeast coast of Australia and have a few color variations. Juveniles are white with blue rhinophores, and adults vary from dark purple to lavender to golden brown.
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Serpent Pteraeolidia

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Whip coral gobies live on coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific, where they are found on a single species of coral: black wire coral.
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Whip Coral Goby Portrait

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Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.
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Are You My Mommy?

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A deep-sea octopus protecting her eggs
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Vigilant Octomom

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A puffin with a mouthful of fish.
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Puffin with a Mouthful of Fish

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Fish swim around the wreck of the HMT Bedfordshire, an Arctic fishing trawler that was converted into an anti-submarine warship during World War II, and sunk off the coast of North Carolina.
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Fish Swim Around Shipwreck

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A tusk shell hermit crab peeks out of his shell.
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Tusk Shell Hermit Crab

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The Wadden Sea site in Germany and the Netherlands was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2009. It hosts marine mammals, including the harbor seal Phoca vitulina, pictured here.
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Wadden Sea, Germany & the Netherlands

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A gray seal on the shores of Surtsey, Iceland.
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A Unique World Heritage Site: Surtsey, Iceland

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The Phoenix Islands Protected Area site in Kiribati was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010. The site encompasses one of the world's largest intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems, together with 14 known underwater seamounts and other deep
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Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati

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The iSimangaliso Wetland Park site in South Africa was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. Wind and water continue to shape the site’s diverse landforms: coral reefs, long sandy beaches, coastal dunes, lake systems, swamps, and extensive ree
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iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa

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The volcanic archipelago St. Kilda in the United Kingdom has some of the highest cliffs in Europe and hosts large colonies of endangered seabirds.
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St. Kilda, United Kingdom

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