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Like a cake, the ocean has different layers—each with its own characteristics.
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Ocean Layers

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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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Pink crustose algae covers the surface of a rock.
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Encrusting Pink Algae and a Seastar

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In the 19th century, many women wore tight corsets that were stiffened with stays made from baleen.
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Whale Products in Fashion

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Dr. Clyde Roper (rear) and museum specialist Mike Sweeny examine a giant squid specimen.
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Studying Giant Squid

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What is coral? The answer is coral is an animal. This cutaway diagram of a coral polyp shows the location of its photosynthetic algae, or zooxanthellae, which coral needs to survive.
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What Is Coral? A Coral Polyp and Zooxanthellae

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A tusk shell hermit crab peeks out of his shell.
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Tusk Shell Hermit Crab

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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 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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The weedy sea dragon male can hold around 250 eggs in his pouch.
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The Dragon of the Sea

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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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