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Photograph of many tiny transparent larval squid surrounding the head of a dissecting pin.
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Squid Babies

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Marc Frischer from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography studies bacteria at a Smithsonian field station.
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Investigating Bacteria

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Flower-like clusters of pink polyps make up this coral colony.
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Coral Colony

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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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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
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Aquatic Locomotion of a Sea Lion

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Ocean Portal summer 2011 intern Brandon Adkins poses next to the aquarium in the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall.
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Exploring Ocean Jobs

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Mangroves are being decimated by human development, like this shrimp farm in Belize.
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Former Mangrove Forest

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a blue embroidery shows zigzag stitching in a cirlce
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Sea Sounds Embroidered in Silk

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As soon as Dampier set foot in Australia, he began making observations and collecting specimens of plants, which he carefully pressed between the pages of books to be studied by the “ingenious” and “curious” upon his return to England. As Dampier conducted his investigations, his artist made detailed sketches like these.
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Discoveries in Australia and New Guinea

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Wooden skeleton of an orca.
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This Whale Sculpture Was Modeled After a Beached Orca

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A sea toad from the deep waters off of Curacao.
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Collections from Curaçao

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a loggerhead Sea Turtle
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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