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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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A manatee swims in Crystal River, Florida.
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From Mermaids to Manatees: the Myth and the Reality

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Smithsonian Ocean Optimism Around the World

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Screenshot of Nancy Knowlton speaking at "Lecture: One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill"
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Lecture: One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill

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Miami Connects Art and Mangrove Restoration

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thin, green stalks of a succulent plant grow up
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Sea Beans

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Like a typical jelly, the tentacles of Haliscera biglowi trail behind it as it moves, causing water flow to push small organisms into the path of the jelly’s deadly stinging grip.
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Stinging Grip

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Aegina citrea are stealth predators that push their tentacles ahead of their body or bell as they swim through the water.
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Ocean Lemon Drop

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Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.
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Mucus Home

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A translucent, female hyperiid surrounded by white young in a barrel-shaped body cavity.
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Phronima Female and Young

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Two small, translucent hyperiids with very large eyes.
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Paraphromina

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