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Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.
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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Marine Plastics

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This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.
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A Look at Life in the Deep Sea

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The vicious "killer shrimp."
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Rough Reputation: Are Invasive Species All Bad?

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A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to grow corals before transferring them to a larger tank. You can see several staghorn coral colonies - it has a branching structure and the white tips indicate healthy, new g
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Tank at St. Lucie County Aquarium

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Basking shark
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Basking Shark

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The tapetail is the larva of the family. It transforms into either a male (bignose) or female whalefish.
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Meet the Whalefish Family

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This halimeda crab’s disguise did not fool researchers in Moorea where it was collected.
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Halimeda Crab

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Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
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Behind the Photo: The Primal Ocean

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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