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Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank
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Walter Adey and Coral Reef Tank

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Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.
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Deep-sea Octocoral on Okeanos Mission

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Black and white image of the Western Flyer boat at dock.
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Western Flyer Boat

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Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
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Sea Otters in Elkhorn Slough

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An estimated 5 tons of plastic are fed to albatross chicks each year at Midway Atoll.
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What We’re Reading 11/14

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Duria Antiquior – A More Ancient Dorset, 1830

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A screenshot of a GIF showing Bart Simpson exclaiming "I have the answer!"
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Open Data Simpsons GIF

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax

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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Bleached Coral On Mesoamerican Reef

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This 1874 illustration of California gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) shows a group of individuals at the edge of their modern day range in the North Pacific Ocean, blocked from traveling further east into Arctic waters by thick ice barriers.
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California Grays Among the Ice

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A emperor penguin chick sits under its mother's legs.
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Emperor Penguin Chick with Mother

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Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

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