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A beautiful bromeliad blooms among the mud and roots of a mangrove swamp.
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Dancing Bulb

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Photograph of a green sea slug, with white polka-dot-like markings and white-edged ruffly structures along the length of its back.
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Lettuce Sea Slug

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Charles Potter (left) and Dr. James Mead of the Smithsonian perform a post-mortem examination on a goose-beaked whale specimen.
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Goose-Beaked Whale Post-Mortem

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This photo provides a small glimpse of the amazing variety of whale skulls and skeletons available for study at the Smithsonian.
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Whale Collections

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Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.
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Brown Pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Eating Whale Bone

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
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Reef Monitoring Structure

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A hermit crab looks out from its coral dwelling in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
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Coral Hermit Crab

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A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.
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Phragmites australis

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a display case of red coral jewelry containing necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings
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Avoid Coral Jewelry

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A map of Boston showing which streets would be flooded if sea level rose by 3 meters.
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Map of Boston with 3-meter sea level rise

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Extreme close-up of great white shark skin denticles.
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Biomimicry Shark Denticles

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