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Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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Seagrass Meadows as Food

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Sea star in a tide pool
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Tide Pools and Adaptations

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This 1890 painting of Charles Darwin is on display at the Turin Museum of Human Anatomy.
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Charles Darwin

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A male mudflat fiddler crab (Uca rapax) waves its huge claw to impress females and threaten competitors.
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The Mudflat Fiddler Crab

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a blue negative of algae
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No Longer Anonymous: Anna Atkins and her Algae

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sea lilies
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Sea Lilies

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The Heard & McDonald Islands site in Australia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. As the only volcanically active sub-Antarctic islands, Heard and McDonald provide the opportunity to observe ongoing geomorphic processes and glacial dynam
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Heard & McDonald Islands, Australia

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A Galapagos tortoise munches on some greens.
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Galapagos Tortoise

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This painting of swarthy buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle was painted by the prolific American marine painter Frederick J. Waugh, and won the Thomas B. Clarke award in 1910 for the best American figure composition.
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The Buccaneers painting

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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A Handful of Biodiversity

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A tree that shows the different relationships between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
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Marine Microbe Tree of Life

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“The male weedy seadragon is entrusted with the pink, fertilized eggs once mating has been completed. It is his task to incubate them until their hatching, approximately eight weeks later. The day this photo was taken, the weather and conditions were unu
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Weedy Seadragon, Flinders pier, Flinders, Victoria, Australia

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