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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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Big Red Deep Sea Jellyfish
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Big Red Jellyfish

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Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.
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Brown Grass Shrimp

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The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

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Laysan albatross with a chick in a volcano looking nest on the ground made of earth.
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Laysan Albatross with a Chick

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Photograph of a bright yellow fish.
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Tagged Atlantic Cod

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

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A right whale opens wide, revealing huge plates of baleen hanging from its upper jaw.
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Right Whale Baleen

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Traditional Native festivities often included ceremonial objects like this bowl.
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Feasting Bowl

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