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The 1903 blue whale in the Natural History Museum
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A Century of Whales at the Smithsonian

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Captain William Kidd at Gardiner's Island
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Captain William Kidd

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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
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How Do Sea Lions Swim?

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Researchers adopted the “yabbie pump,” the long silver tool shown here, from Australian fishing gear.
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Collecting Shallow-Water Specimens with the "Yabbie Pump"

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Neighborhood Seafood Market in Rome, Italy
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Seafood for Thought

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Black men dredge for oysters in a boat
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The Bay of Opportunity and Hope

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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Male fiddler crabs, like this one collected on Moorea, wave their enlarged claw as way of signaling to other crabs, especially during mating season.
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Fiddler Crab

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Two Southern Resident killer whales.
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There are More Whales out There Than We Thought

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scientist Drew-Baker reads a book by her microscope
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Saving Nori

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Illustration of a real oarfish vs the Pokémon counterpart.
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Pokémon

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A newly hatched leatherback turtle moves in the sand.
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Habitat for Leatherback Turtles

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