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This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.
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Purple Sea Urchin

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A Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) poses in the waters off Acadia National Park in Maine. 
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Grey Seal Strikes a Pose

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A four-foot long fish sculpture has fins and tail made with recycled rakes.
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The Rakefish Project

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The fins of the frogfish are perfect for creeping around in the algae and stalking unsuspecting prey.
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Frogfish Histrio histrio

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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A Right Whale Named Phoenix

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
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Orange Roughy and Bycatch

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This painting of swarthy buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle was painted by the prolific American marine painter Frederick J. Waugh, and won the Thomas B. Clarke award in 1910 for the best American figure composition.
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The Buccaneers painting

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

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An Atlantic wolffish hiding on Cashes Ledge off the New England coast.
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Exploring a Unique Biodiversity Hotspot In the Gulf of Maine

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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A tree that shows the different relationships between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
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Marine Microbe Tree of Life

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