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Know Your Puffins

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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7 Ocean Parasites Worth Celebrating on World Parasite Day

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Field experiments conducted by the Zostera Experimental Network (ZEN) explored seagrass biodiversity.
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ZEN Research

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 Dampier is credited with helping to rescue Alexander Selkirk, the privateer who inspired the Robinson Crusoe story.    
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Robinson Crusoe Cover Painting by N.C. Wyeth

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Coral reefs provide food for swarms of fish, both large and small.
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Coral Reef in the Florida Keys

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A Grouper's Ear Stone

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Microbial Life on a Grain of Sand

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a worker sits inside the cast of a whale
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The Cast of a Whale

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Gannet

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baby turtles emerge from nest
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Baby Turtles

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Historical Coelacanth Display

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