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Screenshot from video of a red whalefish swimming in the ocean.
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Whalefish Swimming in the Ocean

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Jean-Michel Cousteau speaking
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2011 Student Summit on the Ocean & Coasts Webcast, Part 5: Jean-Michel Cousteau

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This urchin (Echinocrepis rostrata) leaves tracks as it moves across the ocean floor.
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Deep-Sea Urchin

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a man speaking at the podium
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World Oceans Day 2012 - Live Webcast

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A neighborhood seafood market in the Testaccio area of Rome, Italy.
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Neighborhood Seafood Market in Rome

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A screenshot from the video "Integrated Ocean Drilling Program" showing the front of a research vessel moving through water.
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

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yarn artwork of coral
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Webcast: Stories from the Reef

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Sand dollars (like those pictured in this set of illustrations) are flattened, burrowing sea urchins. Dead, sunlight-bleached specimens resemble silver coins, hence their common name. These figures portray a sand dollar’s lifecycle from larva to adult.
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Sea Urchins

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Spiral-tufted bryozoan
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A Bryozoan's Medical Endosymbiont

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a 3D representation of a marine bacterium
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Pelagibacter

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Charley Potter, Marine Mammals Collection Manager, holding a dolphin skull at the Museum Support Center. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses a collection of hundreds of whale earwax plugs.
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Charley Potter

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

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