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Colorful Christmas tree worms
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Happy Holidays from the Ocean!

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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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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Siphonophores

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a light painted image of a red and white squid
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Light Painting of a Jellyfish

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A point made of Ramah Chert that belonged to the early Eskimo group known as the Groswater Dorset Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center
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Early Eskimo Point

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Photo of a Hawaiian monk seal on the beach, with the ocean in the background.
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The Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal

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A summertime channel carries melted ice to the sea. Antarctica and Greenland lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year from such melting.
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Ice Melt at the Poles

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The Indonesian Archipelago is the heart of the Coral Triangle, a biodiversity hotspot for marine and terrestrial life. This diversity forms an important part of Indonesia's natural, cultural, and economic heritage, its coral reefs alone support nearly 6 mi
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Map of Bali, Indonesia

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New deep sea expeditions reveal new species underwater.
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New Jelly Species: 'Bathykorus bouilloni'

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A veined octopus sits inside a vacant bivalve shell, which it uses as a portable shelter, in the Philippines. This is one of the few examples—if not the only example—of tool use in invertebrates.
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Veined Octopus at Anilao Batangas Pier, Philippines

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The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1998. The islands are particularly notable for the abundance and diversity of nesting pelagic seabirds and penguins (including macaroni penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus,
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New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands, New Zealand

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Great White Shark at sea surface – marvels of evolution.
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Great White Shark at Surface

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