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A tan sea urchin from the deep seas of Curacao.
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Tan Sea Urchin

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Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

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a frond of kelp underwater
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Kelp and Kelp Forests

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Hermit crabs, like this one collected in Moorea, usually protect their soft, vulnerable abdomens from predators by reusing empty snail shells. This specimen shows the crab without its customary borrowed shelter.
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Hermit Crab Without a Shell

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A screenshot from the video showing a bioluminescent seastar.
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The Weird, Wonderful World of Bioluminescence

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Overfishing is leading to an abundance of less desirable species like jellyfish.
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Peanut Butter and Jellyfish

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An illustration of the megalodon shark.
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The Megalodon

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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Gray Whale Spinal Column

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A variety of plankton images from the Gulf Stream
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Gulf Stream Plankton

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Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.
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Cabo Pulmo – Giving Optimism to Coral Reefs

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a squid
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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms

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An episode of the Encyclopedia of Life's "One Species at a Time" podcast focused on the Greenland shark.
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Greenland Shark: One Species at a Time

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