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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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Fossil Mosasaur Skull

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Unlike the green, leafy algae we're used to seeing, coralline algae has a hard crust—which you can see here at the molecular level under a scanning electron microscope.
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Coralline Algae Under the Microscope

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Squalicorax shark fossil from the Smithsonian
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Squalicorax Shark Fossil

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Two researchers, looking for fossil whales, scan a rock formation in Peru's Pisco Basin.
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Searching for Fossil Whales in Peru

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A photo of a candy basslet, an orange and yellow-striped fish.
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Candy Basslet

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Smithsonian zoologist Dr. Steve Cairns named and described this deep-sea coral species, Stephanocyathus paliferus, now preserved at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Corals at the Smithsonian

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This computer screen image shows views of each sonar beam and the path being mapped by the ship.
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Multibeam Sonar Screen

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Students studying climate change and ocean acidity hold crabs.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Delegation

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“I visited the beach at sunrise after high tide and found this skimmer feeding, providing me with this reflected shot.” -- Nature's Best photographer, James A. Galletto. Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III; 500mm lens; 1/1600 sec
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Black Skimmer, Nickerson Beach, Long Island, N.Y., USA

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Dr. Valerie Paul, director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Fla., examines tropical seaweeds on northwestern Guam’s coral reefs.
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Diving in Guam

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Photograph of an orange many-armed sea star on an erect delicately-branched coral in a dark sea.
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Sea Star on Coral at Seamount

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