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A screenshot from the video showing large white tubeworms with red tips on seafloor.
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How Giant Tubeworms Survive at Hydrothermal Vents

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Clark studying a shark jaw
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Eugenie Clark with Shark Jaw

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Kelps are large, brown algae that grow along coasts around the world, especially in cooler regions.
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With Every Breath You Take, Thank the Ocean

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This family tree shows how the ancestors of whales moved gradually from land to sea.
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The Whale Family Tree

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dead coral from disease
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Sickness in the Sea: A Coral Plague Hits Florida

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A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.
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A New Ocean Zone Described with the Help of a Submersible

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A marine biologist measures the temperature of an ice core.
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Measuring Ice Core Temperatures

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Starfish—marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata—are famous for their ability to shed limbs as a means of defense and then regenerate the sacrificed part.
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Haeckel Starfish

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The Sundarbans site in Bangladesh, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997, includes one of the largest remaining areas of mangroves in the world and supports a rich animal community.
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Sundarbans, Bangladesh

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The Macquarie Island site in Australia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie oceanic ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific p
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Macquarie Island, Australia

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