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A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
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You Light Up My World!

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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A screenshot from the video showing a bioluminescent seastar.
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The Weird, Wonderful World of Bioluminescence

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A blue-ringed octopus
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How Octopuses and Squids Change Color

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A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean

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A school of mahi mahi.
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From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi

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A blue parrotfish hides among coral.
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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals

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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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A marine iguana looks off in the distance.
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Marine Iguanas: One Species at a Time

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