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Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.
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Tiny, but Deadly

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Arctic Tern on the Inner Farne Island.
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Arctic Tern

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A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.
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Phragmites australis

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One ocean. More than 100 moored buoys gather data on the single, contiguous, body of water that encircles the globe.
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Buoy Collects Data on the Open Ocean

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Extreme close-up of great white shark skin denticles.
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Biomimicry Shark Denticles

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This jewel squid (Histioteuthis bonnellii) lives above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Jewel Squid

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This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.
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Blind Lobster

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Sooty Shearwaters Migrate
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Sooty Shearwater

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A look into a whale shark mouth.
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A Smiling Gentle Giant

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A white Antarctic landscape with John Weller standing away from the camera in the distance.
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Protecting a Pristine Ocean

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Beautiful crab water colors
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Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

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