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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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The Sargassum frogfish is a small but voracious predator - it can ingest animals up to it’s own size!
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Sargassum Frogfish

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This painting of swarthy buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle was painted by the prolific American marine painter Frederick J. Waugh, and won the Thomas B. Clarke award in 1910 for the best American figure composition.
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The Buccaneers painting

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Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.
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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

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A great white shark in the waters of the coast of Guadelupe, Mexico.
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How Realistic is the Shark Science in "The Shallows"?

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A sea turtle swimming
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Sea Turtles

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The elusive giant squid
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Reflections on the Successful Search for the Giant Squid

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The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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History and Modern Science Collide for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan

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A blue, silver, and black fish skin robe displayed hanging from a rod. The robe is created from multiple fish skin sewn together and dyed with indigo.
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Replica of an Ainu Fish Skin Robe

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A vaquita swims at the the water's surface.
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The Vanishing Vaquita

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Humpback whales spend their summers feeding in cold, food-filled Arctic and Antarctic waters before swimming to warmer waters for the winter.
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Humpback Whales Going After Herring

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The Sian Ka'an site in Mexico was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1987. The site's name means "Origin of the Sky" in Mayan and contains tropical forests, mangroves, and marshes, as well as a large marine area intersected by the Caribbean Barrier Re
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Sian Ka'an, Mexico

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