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A variety of corals cling to Manning Seamount, just off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Seamounts, A Deep-Sea Habitat

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An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.
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The Ocean Throughout Geologic Time, An Image Gallery

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Color illustration of an ancient bivalve.
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Rudist Reefs

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Photograph of an orange many-armed sea star on an erect delicately-branched coral in a dark sea.
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Sea Star on Coral at Seamount

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This may look like a mane of hair, but it’s actually baleen from a North Atlantic right whale.
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Baleen Close Up

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An illustration depicting many sea animals living in the modern seas off Angola.
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Modern Benguela Current Ecosystem

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Two fishers in a canoe fishing
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Two Fishers Fishing

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Illustration of the extinct ammonite, related to the modern squid.
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Ammonite

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The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary encompasses several state parks and wildlife refuges.
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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Published in 1882 by Yale Professor A.E. Verrill, this is the first scientific illustration of a giant squid.
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First Scientific Illustration of Giant Squid

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Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
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Rudist Clams

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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Baleen: From Whales to People

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