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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.
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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

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An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows

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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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Ocean Trash Plaguing Our Sea

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This new species of squid (Magnapinna sp.) was discovered in 1954 in the stomach of a lancetfish.
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Bigfin Squid Specimen

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This urchin (Echinocrepis rostrata) leaves tracks as it moves across the ocean floor.
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Deep-Sea Urchin

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Photograph of an orange many-armed sea star on an erect delicately-branched coral in a dark sea.
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Sea Star on Coral at Seamount

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An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.
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The Archean Eon (4,600 – 2,500 Million Years Ago)

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Sargassum forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift.
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Floating Sargassum Seaweed

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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 brown and white dragon moray eel with its mouth open.
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Surprising Results Upon Reexamining the Curious Jaw of the Moray Eel

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ichthyosaurs frolic in the waves
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Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales

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