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a seal skin kayak
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Yup'ik Kayak

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A coral catshark
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Coral Catshark

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Sea anemone illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Anemones

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These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed cell are forming into fat cells after exposure to endocrine disruptors.
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Cells Get Fat

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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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A crab sits on a coral with a sponge covering its head
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A Sponge Crab's Updo

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A shimmering bobtail squid.
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Bobtail Squid Shimmers

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A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whale in Antarctic Waters

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Crocheted corals from the Smithsonian Community Reef group on Flickr.
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Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Forms

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As Dampier studied the plants he encountered in Australia, he wrote that they were “for the most part unlike any I had seen elsewhere.” In fact, nearly all the plants Dampier observed were entirely unknown to botanists at that time.
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More Australian Plants

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Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
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Right Whale Tail

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