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Male northern elephant seals face off for the best beach territory for mating season.
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Elephant Seals Tussle for Territory

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An algal bloom, also known as a red tide, has converted the ocean's surf to a red color
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Red Tide

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Large container ships at port, discharging ballast water in the Port of Oakland
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Ballast Water in the Port of Oakland

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A "reef hotel" made of PVS layers on the seafloor.
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Placing ARMS in the Red Sea

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Illustration of colorful nudibranchs from Ernst Haeckel.
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Nudibranchs

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Vertebrates evolved in the sea and eventually moved onto land. The ancestors of whales later returned to the sea.
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Whales Returned to the Sea

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Whalers hunted right whales for baleen, which was used in a variety of commercial products such as umbrellas and whips.
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Ad for Whale Baleen Umbrellas

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Marine biologist Gerald Kooyman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has documented climate-induced changes to emperor penguin habitats and impacts on how the penguins feed, breed, and raise their young.
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Emperor Penguins

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Dinoflagellates are major producers of oxygen in the ocean (and freshwater). But some species can grow out of control, causing a red tide.
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Dinoflagellate

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Carole Baldwin holding a preserved fish in a jar.
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Podcast: Dr. Carole Baldwin on Building the Sant Ocean Hall

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A ribbon worm curled up in a mud flat.
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A Ribbon Worm From the Mud Flats

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

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