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An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix that was used to develop a life size model for the Smithsonian shows the location of scars on her mouth from entanglements with fishing gear.
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Phoenix: Mouth Scarring

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Ari Daniel Shapiro and Dr.Randi Rotjan of the New England Aquarium, journey to the Phoenix Islands to study coral bleaching.
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Coral Reefs: One Species at a Time

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A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
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Shell Dissolves in Seawater

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A composite photograph of three of the crustaceans found living on olive ridley and green turtles in the Pacific.
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Crustacean Epibionts

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A photo of oceanographer Xavier Pastor aboard an Oceana research vessel surrounded by ice in the Baltic Sea
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Oceanographer Xavier Pastor

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Students are made to look like they are riding the back of a giant turtle in a doctored photo.
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North Carolina Delegation

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A surfer waits for the perfect wave.
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Surfer at Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA

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“I visited the beach at sunrise after high tide and found this skimmer feeding, providing me with this reflected shot.” -- Nature's Best photographer, James A. Galletto. Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III; 500mm lens; 1/1600 sec
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Black Skimmer, Nickerson Beach, Long Island, N.Y., USA

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Scientists attached this Crittercam to a sperm whale in an effort to film a giant squid in its natural habitat.
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Crittercam

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The canoe traveled more than 4,828 kilometers (3,000 miles) to reach Washington, D.C.
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Raven Spirit’s Journey

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“Golden sweepers form schools in reef crevices and caves and among coral heads. The technique I employed to make this image was a long exposure and rear curtain synchronization combined with a circular rotation of the camera during the shot. Buyat Bay, a
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Golden Sweepers, Pulau Tulang, Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Scientist Martha Nizinski examines a sample of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, collected 600-m (1,969-ft) deep off the coast of the southeastern United States.
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Deep-Sea Coral Sample

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