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An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix indicates the location of scars on her tail from entanglements with fishing gear.
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Phoenix: Tail Scarring

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A beautiful bromeliad blooms among the mud and roots of a mangrove swamp.
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Dancing Bulb

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A manatee swimming in shallow waters.
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Manatees

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A mangrove tree crab clings to a leaf near a Smithsonian marine laboratory in Panama.
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Mangrove Tree Crab

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Charles Potter (left) and Dr. James Mead of the Smithsonian perform a post-mortem examination on a goose-beaked whale specimen.
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Goose-Beaked Whale Post-Mortem

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With the sun in its beak, the canoe’s raven figurehead points the way.
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Canoe Figurehead

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The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and more than a mile thick.
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Jakobshavn Glacier

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Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.
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Brown Pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill

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The elusive giant squid
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Giant Squid Caught Live On Screen

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Eating Whale Bone

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A scientists examines a sponge specimen collected in the Caribbean.
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Cancer-Fighting Sponges?

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Photo of Sylvia Earle
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Dr. Sylvia Earle

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