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A puffin sits on a rock next to a puffin decoy.
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Puffin and Decoy

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Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.
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From Sea Sponge to HIV Medicine

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una foto en blanco y negro de un yate de la década de 1930
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Recuerdo de la primera expedición del Smithsonian a Puerto Rico

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A shark tooth embedded in a bone
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What the Megalodon Left Behind

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a colored shakemap from the M5.8 Virginia Earthquake depicts the shake range and epicenter of the earthquake
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A Guide to Earthquake Lesson Plans

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A photo of a sea toad specimen.
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A Sub and a Sea Toad

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Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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A clutch bag made from fish skin, decorated with a large flower created with collaged shapes cut from fish leather.
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Hezhen Fish Skin Painting Clutch

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Tropical hatchetfish, like the one shown in this X-ray photograph, live in the dark depths of the ocean. Like many other deep-sea fishes, they have large eyes and bioluminescent spots on their bellies.
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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

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A plastic bag floats at sea.
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Plastic Bag Bans Work

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The first known filter feeder is a large shrimp-like creature called Tamisiocaris borealis. The feather-like structures on its head were used to rake plankton from the sea.
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The First Filter Feeder

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