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Juvenile Clam with Tentacles

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Spaceship Mollusk

February 2014

Whitemouth morays hide in the crevices of Indo-Pacific coral reefs with only their heads (and white mouths) emerging, mouths agape, to breathe and hunt crustaceans and fish.

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Eel, Embedded

June 2015

A Tiny Fish Tells A Big Story: Some fish only spend a part of the year in the Gulf of Mexico, but some, like the Gulf killifish, live there year-round. In addition, these estuary fish are small and abundant, making them an excellent study species for scien

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Killifish in the Gulf of Mexico

January 2015

Seaside sparrow chicks beg for food from their nest

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A Nest of Begging Chicks

December 2014

A photo of a tern's silhouette against an orange sky.

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Common Tern Silhouette, Nickerson Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

June 2011

Smithsonian zoologist Dr. Steve Cairns named and described this deep-sea coral species, Stephanocyathus paliferus, now preserved at the National Museum of Natural History.

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Corals at the Smithsonian

June 2011

Seahorse couples (such as these Hippocampus histrix) greet each other every morning with a unique dance that sometimes involves changing color. The couple promenades and pirouettes together for several minutes before separating for the rest of the day. The

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Dancing Seahorse Pairs

December 2012

The squidworm has 10 tentacle-like appendages on its head.

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The Squidworm - A New Species

July 2015

Students from Grady High School, part of the Georgia Aquarium Delegation, are researching the impacts of climate change on loggerhead sea turtles in the south Atlantic ocean.

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Georgia Aquarium Delegation

February 2011

Pygmy Seahorse Blends Into its Environment

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Eye to Eye With a Pygmy Seahorse

August 2017

This fish is using counterillumination to disappear. At left it stands out against the light above it. At right, with bioluminescent structures lit, it blends in.

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Fish Using Counterillumination

January 2010

This urchin (Echinocrepis rostrata) leaves tracks as it moves across the ocean floor.

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Deep-Sea Urchin

January 2010