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An illustration depicting many sea animals living in the Cretaceous seas off Angola.
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Cretaceous Benguela Current Ecosystem

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Arctic Tern on the Inner Farne Island.
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Arctic Tern

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Hundreds of birds congregate around the trawl fishing vessel. The orange "bird scaring lines" keep the birds from flying into the trawl cables where they can accidentally get caught and die.
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Bird scaring lines

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An environmental chemist collects samples of oil in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The resulting chemical “fingerprint” of the oil will help determine the origin of other samples.
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Oil Samples in the Gulf

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A snailfish, with brown and white stripes.
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A Snailfish Swimming in the Baltic Sea

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A SCUBA diver in taking photographs in the Baltic Sea.
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An Underwater Photographer Battles the Baltic's Cold Waters

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A close-up photo of dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), living in the Baltic Sea.
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Dead Man’s Fingers

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Introduction to the Deep Sea

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An Atlantic puffin with small fish in its beak.
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Atlantic Puffin

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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

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