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Tuna in a warehouse waiting to be sold at market.
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Tuna at Tsukiji Fish Market

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The Ha Long Bay site in Vietnam was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The site's 1,600 islands and islets form a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars surrounded by species-rich waters, including a tremendous diversity of marine algae and o
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Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

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Crocheted corals from the Smithsonian Community Reef group on Flickr.
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Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Forms

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Sargassum fish from South Korea
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Sargassum fish from the Waters of South Korea

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An environmental chemist collects samples of oil in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The resulting chemical “fingerprint” of the oil will help determine the origin of other samples.
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Oil Samples in the Gulf

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Pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read shown in men's clothes
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Ann Bonny and Mary Read

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During what is known as the Golden Age of Piracy, pirates reaped great rewards—and, if they were caught, faced terrible punishments. Here are some of the most legendary pirates of that time.
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Dividing Up the Treasure

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A crew works on creating a life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix
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Crew Works on Phoenix Model

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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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A Starfish Wasting Away

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The 2012 Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center dive class stand in a group together
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Scientific Diving Students from the 2012 IBRC Program

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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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Coral Spawning by Moonlight

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Coral Head Near Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Hawaii
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Pearl and Hermes Atoll Coral

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