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Freshly cut dorsal fin from a scalloped hammerhead shark held by fisherman with knife.
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Shark Finning: Sharks Turned Prey

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A tree that shows the different relationships between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
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Marine Microbe Tree of Life

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A comic explaining the impacts of global warming
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Student Comic Winner: The Impact of Global Warming

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A blue, silver, and black fish skin robe displayed hanging from a rod. The robe is created from multiple fish skin sewn together and dyed with indigo.
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Replica of an Ainu Fish Skin Robe

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A clutch bag made from fish skin, decorated with a large flower created with collaged shapes cut from fish leather.
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Hezhen Fish Skin Painting Clutch

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Tropical hatchetfish, like the one shown in this X-ray photograph, live in the dark depths of the ocean. Like many other deep-sea fishes, they have large eyes and bioluminescent spots on their bellies.
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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

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In the X-ray image of this Viper Moray Eel (Enchelynassa canina), note the second set of jaws in the “throat”; these are the gill arches, which are present in all fish.
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X-Ray Image of a Viper Moray Eel

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The long toothy rostrum or “saw," which gives the smalltooth sawfish its common name, is clearly seen in this X-ray image.
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X-Ray Image of a Smalltooth Sawfish

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Instead of creating sculptures like this one, volunteers with Debris Free Bonaire collect and throw out trash. As of May 2014, the group has removed more than 5,650 cubic feet of marine plastic from Bonaire's eastern coastline!
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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

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Jellyfish illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Semaeostome Jellyfish

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The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1998. The islands are particularly notable for the abundance and diversity of nesting pelagic seabirds and penguins (including macaroni penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus,
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New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands, New Zealand

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The Tubbataha Reefs National Park site in the Philippines was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993. The site is an example of a pristine coral reef with a spectacular 100 m (330 ft) perpendicular wall, extensive lagoons, and two coral islands - all
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Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Philippines

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