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plastic bottles, cans, a yellow hard hat, and other human refuse litters a tropical beach
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Bring Your Own Container to Avoid Trash

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In this photo of a shallow coral reef in the Pacific there are three species of forams. Their colors come from the symbiotic algae that live inside the foram shells.
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Shallow Coral Reef Foraminifers

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Great White Sharks breach to hunt -- with split-second timing they grab their prey in one swift snatch. Follow the whole breaching action in this slideshow.
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Breaching Great White Shark on the Hunt

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Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

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Like a cake, the ocean has different layers—each with its own characteristics.
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Ocean Layers

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The suckers of this red octopod flash on and off.
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Glowing Sucker Octopus

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Anemone shrimp in Puerto Galera, Philippines.
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Anemone Shrimp

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The mauve stinger is a glowing jellyfish.
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Glowing Mauve

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The deepest point on earth is the Mariana Trench.
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Mariana Trench

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The Japanese spider crab may be big but it is not invincible.
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Japanese Spider Crab

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There are many techniques used to sample the benthic zone.
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Benthic Diving Techniques

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False killer whales form close bonds which can result in them getting stranded in large groups.
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The Killer Whale Imposter

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