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David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at Seattle’s Pike Place Market
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Seattle Fishmonger

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Close-up photograph of translucent coral polyps, showing the symbiotic algae living inside.
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Close-up of a Coral Polyp

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Broad-leaf seagrass (Posidonia australis) with algae epiphytes grows at Corner Inlet Marine National Park in Australia.
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Seagrass with Epiphytes

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A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open.
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Mouth Agape Comb Jelly

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Three cleaning spray bottles
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Clean-up Your Act

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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Proterozoic Eon, featuring a creature that resembles a jellyfish and other organisms.
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Ediacaran Community, Proterozoic Eon (2,500 - 542 Million Years Ago)

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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 Archean Eon (4,600 – 2,500 Million Years Ago)

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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Smithsonian Marine Collections on Google Earth

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A marine biologist measures the temperature of an ice core.
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Measuring Ice Core Temperatures

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Dr. Kathy Crane and colleagues stand on solid sea ice in the Canadian Arctic.
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Kathy Crane with colleagues on ice

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Vertebrates evolved in the sea and eventually moved onto land. The ancestors of whales later returned to the sea.
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Whales Returned to the Sea

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Geophysicist Jian Lin of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studied the earthquake site that triggered 2004’s Indian Ocean tsunami. New tools to map seafloor earthquakes—like this robotic Autonomous Benthic Explorer—enhance our understanding of catastrophic events, such as the tsunami.
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Seafloor Earthquakes Study

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