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ichthyosaurs frolic in the waves
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Frolicking Ichthyosaurs

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A diagram of a shark's six highly refined senses: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism
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Shark Senses

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Venomous Box Jelly from South Carolina
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Pinning Down the Jellyfish

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A photo of a European flounder in the Baltic Sea.
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Flounder Faces Pollution and Overfishing in Baltic Sea

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In this photo, the jellyfish Pandea rubra may have been surprised by a camera light or in a defensive state, causing it to contract its red mantle and reveal its complex muscle anatomy.
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Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish

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Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.
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Mucus Home

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The frogfish is an expert hunter and can eat fish in 6 milliseconds.
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The Frogfish

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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System

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A scorpian in a mangrove ecosystem.
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Scorpion in a Mangrove

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A team of Smithsonian scientists poses in the waters of Panama.
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eDNA Team in Panama

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Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico
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Tagging and Tracking Animals Underwater

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Museum Specialist Ruth Gibbons, aboard a deep sea research vessel processing specimens
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Ruth Gibbons

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