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An adult giant squid battles its only known predator - a sperm whale.
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Battle with a Sperm Whale

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These Smithsonian field stations enable scientists worldwide to conduct long-term studies on mangrove ecosystems.
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Description of Smithsonian Field Stations

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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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The Island of Moorea

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Mangroves on the edge of the water.
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Mangroves at the Sea’s Edge

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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Parasitic Worms in a Fish

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Horseshoe Crab in Stage Harbor, Massachusetts
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Horseshoe Crab in Massachusetts

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

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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

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Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.
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Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own

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A school of mahi mahi.
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From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi

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a seafloor littered in potato sized rocks
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What Are Polymetallic Nodules?

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

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