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A 3D rendering of a man wearing a blue and white fish skin robe, standing on a boat in the ocean.
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3D Render of an Ainu Fisherman in a Fish Skin Robe

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Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

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Illustrations of radiolarians from Ernst Haeckel.
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Radiolarians

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Whip coral gobies live on coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific, where they are found on a single species of coral: black wire coral.
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Whip Coral Goby Portrait

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The volcanic archipelago St. Kilda in the United Kingdom has some of the highest cliffs in Europe and hosts large colonies of endangered seabirds.
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St. Kilda, United Kingdom

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Hawaiian monk seal comes ashore
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Red Listed: Study Finds One-Fifth of World's Vertebrates Are at Risk

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Magellanic penguin parents typically lay two eggs under a bush or in a burrow, taking turns swimming out to sea to catch food for their chicks.
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Magellanic Penguin Parent and Chick

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Aerial view of two bowhead whales swimming in the ocean.
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Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time

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Hantkenina mexicana -- a foram with elongated shell chambers that lived between 45-49 million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch.
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Hantkenina mexicana

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Sarah Gotheil, from IUCN Global Marine Programme, snapped this photo in the course of her research into fragile species and ecosystems.
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Protecting Fragile Species

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Shark Sizes: Whale Shark 46 feet, Basking Shark 33 feet, Great White Shark 23 feet, Megamouth Shark 15 feet, Nurse Shark 13 feet, Mako Shark 8 feet, Blacktip Reef Shark 6.5 feet, Bonnethead Shark 3.4 feet, Dwaf Lantern Shark 6 inches
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What is the Biggest Shark? A Chart Shows the Diversity of Shark Sizes

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Anemone porcelain crabs can avoid predators by not only living in anemones but by willing loosing appendages to avoid infection.
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The Porcelain Crab

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