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This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
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From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

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A squat lobster and blackbelly rosefish find shelter on a Lophelia pertusa coral reef off the southeastern United States.
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Coral Reef Lobster and Fish

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Nuclear bomb in Bikini Atoll
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Nuclear Bombs on the Coral Reef

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A chart that shows the various classification of reef zones off Curaçao.
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Classification of Reef Zones off Curaçao

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Sea bass flock to a tropical coral reef in the Red Sea.
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Coral Reef Ecosystem, Red Sea

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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Crochet Reef
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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Reef

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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This Old Tubeworm

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Algae has overtaken this coral reef off heavily populated Kiritimati, or Christmas Island.
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Unhealthy Coral Reef, Kiritimi, Line Islands

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A golden bass with sand in the background.
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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

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a manta ray swims up revealing its underside
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Reef Manta Ray

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Colorful fishes throng a reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals

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