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What's a Buccaneer? Buccaneers were pirates who raided Spanish ships and settlements in the Carribean.
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Buccaneer definition

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A photo of a solitary European green crab on a sandy substrate.
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European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Light at the End of the Deep, Dark Ocean

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Jeff Chanton's students collect plankton in large nets called plankton tows during the May 2012 R/V Weatherbird II Cruise in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Collecting Plankton

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Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with a hammerhead shark snow sculpture.
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2011 Ocean Hero, Sophi Bromenshenkel

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A photo of a solitary European green crab on a sandy substrate.
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A green crab’s super power: eating through its gills

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Photo of a man holding totoaba a vaquita caught in a net underneath.
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Vaquitas as Bycatch

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Brian Skerry sits on a 20 foot high underwater tripod to photograph the Aquarius Habitat off Florida.
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Photographing the Underwater Aquarius Habitat

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A blue crab on the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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Coastal Blue Crab

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Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with a hammerhead shark snow sculpture.
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Saving Sharks and Dolphins, Near and Far

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A blue crab on the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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A Bite of Bitter Crab

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the stomach contents of a mosasaur
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Stomach Contents

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