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“I slowly approached this bird resting on the back of a turtle just under the surface of the water. I got the shot just before the tern flew away.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Nuno Sá.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS 20D; 70-200mm lens
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Tern and Loggerhead Sea Turtle, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

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A school of bluefin tuna
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna School

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This rarely seen smalleyed rabbitfish, belongs to the order Chimaera. Chimaeras are related to sharks and are cartilaginous animals—they have no real bones.
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Chimaera from the Deep

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What is El Nino?

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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Food Chain Hide and Seek

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Ocean Portal summer 2011 intern Brandon Adkins poses next to the aquarium in the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall.
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Exploring Ocean Jobs

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A large group of dancers from the island of Tokelau dance during fiafia, evening entertainment)
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Water is Rising: Pacific Islands, Art, and Climate Change

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Three fishermen sit on wooden stilts that are sticking out of the ocean as they fish.
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Artisanal Stilts Fishermen

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a jellyfish in blackwater
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Nighttime Jelly

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a diagram comparing the size of a water droplet to the size of a bacteria to the size of a virus
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The Size of a Virus

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Image of a translucent crustacean on a black background.
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Amphipods Host Microsporidia

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