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a barnacle sits at the base of a crab's abdomen
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Invading Barnacles

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Of the eight million metric tons of plastic dumped in the ocean every year, much of it ends up on beaches like this one in Tanzania. But some companies are working to change that high statistic.
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Trash On a Tanzanian Beach

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Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
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Spinner Dolphins

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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

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Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

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Beating Cilia of Comb Jelly Combs
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Sea Gooseberry Larva

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A golden bass with sand in the background.
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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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A shimmering bobtail squid.
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Bobtail Squid Shimmers

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Colorful corals are disappearing in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Coral at the Great Barrier Reef

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Crochet Jellyfish from the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
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Crochet Jellyfish

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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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Lichen Zones

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