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A series of six images depicting the Kakishibu dyeing process. The top two images show slices of persimmons, the middle two show the brown shades of juice distilled from the fruit, and the bottom two show a swatch of fish skin being dyed brown with the juice.
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Kakishibu Dyed Fish Leather

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an illustration of pufferfish species and their relatives
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Pufferfishes and Their Relatives

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Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

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Spotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
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The Cat-Like Eyes of a Catshark

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Illustration of copepods from Ernst Haeckel.
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Copepods

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Methane-eating bacteria (also called methanotrophs) helped clean up the Gulf oil spill, such as Methylococcus capsulatus shown here.
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Oil Spill Methanotroph

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This coordinated group of gliders were used off the coast of Monterey Bay, CA. Programmed to behave like groups of animals that function together in the wild, the robots can decide where to go and how to move in order to get the best data possible with in
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Coordinated Glider Fleet

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A crab with numerous
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Decorator Crab

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A emperor penguin chick sits under its mother's legs.
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Emperor Penguin Chick with Mother

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Where the pH is the lowest, corals can no longer grow - sand, rubble and seagrasses replace the reef.
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Lonely Seagrass in Acidic Waters

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The Ha Long Bay site in Vietnam was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The site's 1,600 islands and islets form a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars surrounded by species-rich waters, including a tremendous diversity of marine algae and o
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Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

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A crown-of-thorns starfish in the Marianas Islands.
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Mystery Photo: Prickly Puzzler on the Reef

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