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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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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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Animals of the Fire Ice

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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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a jellyfish in blackwater
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Nighttime Jelly

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

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Image of circular nets in water where fish are grown.
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Fish Farms and Microsporidia

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Close up image of red fish gills with small black spots on left and an image of a preserved white fish with a large intestine.
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Fish Infected with Microsporidia

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A parrotfish creates a mucus cocoon to protect it from parasites while sleeping.
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Parrotfish in Mucus Cocoon

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Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus all have differently shaped pupils— an octopus has a rectangular pupil.
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Octopus Eyes

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A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.
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Good-Bye Gillnet, Hello Shark Recovery!

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