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The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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Charles W. Morgan

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Elders bless a new canoe with lighted sage, song, and traditional dances.
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Blessing a New Canoe

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Photograph of a bristly brown and white worm, with one end pressed against a pale green coral.
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Fireworm Takes on Fire Coral

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Arm Bone Fossil of an Ancient Toothed Whale

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Large numbers of grey reef sharks were observed at Jarvis Island, an uninhabited Pacific island, during the 2010 Pacific RAMP expedition of the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai.
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Reef Sharks Passing Through

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A school of Atlantic bluefin tuna swimming.
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: One Species at a Time

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Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) workers contracted by BP clean up oil on the beach in Port Fourchon, La. May 23, 2010.
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Oil spill cleanup workers

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Three cleaning spray bottles
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Clean-up Your Act

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Geophysicist Jian Lin of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studied the earthquake site that triggered 2004’s Indian Ocean tsunami. New tools to map seafloor earthquakes—like this robotic Autonomous Benthic Explorer—enhance our understanding of catastrophic events, such as the tsunami.
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Seafloor Earthquakes Study

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Census researchers discovered this sea cucumber (Enypniastes sp.) in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Transparent Sea Cucumber

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Mantis shrimp have built-in polarized vision to help them see underwater—and maybe even communicate.
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Built-in Underwater Polarized Lenses?

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Mantis Shrimp Carries Eggs

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