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a yellowtail snapper is hooked by a fisherman
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Hooked

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A multi-colored map of the mid-Atlantic ride made from satellite imagery.
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How the Ocean Floor Helped Seal the Deal for Plate Tectonics

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This piece of pocillopora, or cauliflower coral, would normally have a rigid outer skeleton, but researchers dissolved it to expose the coral’s tissue and take a sample for DNA analysis.
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Cauliflower Coral - Pocillopora

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3-D map of Chapman’s Reef. Produced in 2005 with multibeam sonar from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
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Deep-Sea Coral Reef Map

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An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.
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Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes

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Valentinni's sharpnose puffer lives on Indo-Pacific coral reefs, where it shoals in groups of 10-100 puffers and feeds on algae and tunicates.
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Valentinni's Sharpnose Puffer

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Oil burns during a controlled fire May 6, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Burn

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an orange coral at the bottom of the ocean
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A Fantastic Journey: From the Seafloor to the Museum Collection

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The Rice's Whale

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a red snapper's ear stone in the palm of someone's hand
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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime

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Sound artist Halsey Burgund performs his composition Ocean Voices.
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Five Questions for Halsey Burgund, Creator of Ocean Voices

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Fish swim around the wreck of the HMT Bedfordshire, an Arctic fishing trawler that was converted into an anti-submarine warship during World War II, and sunk off the coast of North Carolina.
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Underwater WWII Wrecks – Pollution or Cultural Heritage?

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