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a veterinarian listens to a dolphin's heartbeat
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The Musical Hearts of Dolphins

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs

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A pile of bycatch species.
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A Net Full of Bycatch

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Scaffolding and supports support a life-size model of a right whale in the national Museum of Natural History.
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Work Site for Building the Model of Phoenix

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This piece of pocillopora, or cauliflower coral, would normally have a rigid outer skeleton, but researchers dissolved it to expose the coral’s tissue and take a sample for DNA analysis.
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Cauliflower Coral - Pocillopora

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Encrusted pumice
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Encrusted Pumice

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Oil, Oil Everywhere

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Screen shot from lecture on World Ocean Day.
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The Last Wild Places In the Ocean Webcast

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The pink strands of this coral harbor a variety of organisms. Sea whips are gorgonian corals, with flexible skeletons.
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Sea Whip Coral

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Ice divers study the abundance of marine life.
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Counting Creatures

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A diver cares for the reef by cleaning up discarded fishing gear and garbage.
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Resolve to Protect the Ocean

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The Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino site in Mexico was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993. The sanctuary contains important breeding and wintering sites for the grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus - pictured here), harbor seal (Phoca vitulina),
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Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino, Mexico

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