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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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A bull shark's ability to prey on many different species is helped by its capacity to survive in both freshwater and saltwater.
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Swinging for Bull Sharks

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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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The Cocos Island National Park site in Costa Rica was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. Cocos Island's position as the first point of contact with the northern equatorial counter-current and the myriad interactions between the island and the su
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Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica

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Smithsonian Zoologist Dr. Clyde Roper in front of the museum's stored cephalopod collection.
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Smithsonian Cephalopod Collection

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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Caught on Video: 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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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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A Handful of Biodiversity

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Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Fossils Get a CT Scan

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An underwater photo of coral recovering from a bleaching event.
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Resilient Coral

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Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
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Orange Roughy and Bycatch

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