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Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult features: an eye and legs.
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Lobster Egg

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

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Seaside sparrow chicks beg for food from their nest
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A Nest of Begging Chicks

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Two nautiluses in the open ocean off the coast of Palau.
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A Couple of Nautiluses

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Millions of sharks are caught each year for their dorsal fins, which are prized for shark fin soup. Top predators like sharks are important to maintaining biodiversity, and their removal can have ripple effects through an ecosystem.
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Finned Sharks in South Africa

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An image of collections storage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Smithsonian Fish Collections

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Three hundred year old pen and ink drawing of a "strange and large" bat.
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New Guinea Bat

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As soon as Dampier set foot in Australia, he began making observations and collecting specimens of plants, which he carefully pressed between the pages of books to be studied by the “ingenious” and “curious” upon his return to England. As Dampier conducted his investigations, his artist made detailed sketches like these.
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Australian Plants

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Marine Ecologist Jeremy Jackson
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Marine Ecologist Jeremy Jackson Discusses Oil Spills

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An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) being launched from the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in Gulf of Mexico

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