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a blue larval cusk eel with a protruding gut
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Spilled Guts

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Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

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As Dampier studied the plants he encountered in Australia, he wrote that they were “for the most part unlike any I had seen elsewhere.” In fact, nearly all the plants Dampier observed were entirely unknown to botanists at that time.
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More Australian Plants

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Artist Joan Lederman glazes her work with deep ocean sediments.
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Bowl Glazed with Deep Ocean Sediments

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Henry the Fish is made completely out of colorful plastic that washed up on Oregon beaches.
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Henry the Giant Fish

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To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San Diego Sediment Research Group) studied the environmental impact of dredging sediment from the waterways.
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Saving Venice, Italy

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A Hawaiian petrel in flight
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4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird

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Three Killer whales (Orca) swim along side researchers.
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Listening for Clues About Sonar’s Effects on Marine Mammals

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A female manatee and her calf are captured on film foraging in seagrass off the coast of Brazil.
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Female Manatee Foraging with a Calf on Her Back

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Scientist Kevin Raskoff processes samples of DNA
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Building a Database

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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On Biodiversity: Understanding its Meaning and Importance

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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

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