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A sea turtle swims with its arms wide.
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Turtle in Flight

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

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The spanish dancer is one of the largest species and best swimmers of the nudibranchs.
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The Spanish Dancer

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Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico in 2006.
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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

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Giant drift nets, placed around the world’s oceans to catch commercial fish species, kill non-commercial animals just as efficiently, often taking far more of the latter for every useable species ensnared.
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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

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The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery scoops up a lot of unwanted fish along with the shrimp. In the 1990s, for every pound of shrimp caught, more than 4 pounds of other fish species were caught as bycatch and discarded dead.
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Shrimp Trawls Catch More Than Shrimp

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Squalicorax shark fossil from the Smithsonian
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Squalicorax Shark Fossil

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Sea squire illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Squirts

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Juvenile California sea lion
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Acrobats of La Paz, Mexico

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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Proterozoic Eon, featuring a creature that resembles a jellyfish and other organisms.
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Ediacaran Community, Proterozoic Eon (2,500 - 542 Million Years Ago)

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Artist Shih Chieh Huang's creations are often composed of lights, computer parts, and plastic refuse.
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Artist Shih Chieh Huang

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A polar bear lifting his head to smell the scent of humans nearby
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Polar Bear Impacted by Climate Change

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