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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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Squid size comparison chart: Lycoteuthis springeri (10-12cm), Leachia atlantica (up to 12cm), Promachoteuthis sp. (up to 5cm), Batoteuthis scolops (up to 20cm).
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What is the Largest Squid? A Squid Size Comparison Chart

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Published in 1882 by Yale Professor A.E. Verrill, this is the first scientific illustration of a giant squid.
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First Scientific Illustration of Giant Squid

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Breaching

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Close-up photograph of a large red cuttlefish.
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Australian Giant Cuttlefish

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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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Close-up photograph of the face of a blue footed booby.
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Blue-footed Booby

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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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Three Killer whales (Orca) swim along side researchers.
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Researchers Studying Killer Whales

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The "Lower Invertebrates" exhibit in Smithsonian Institution Building in 1901 included models of a giant squid and an octopus.
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More Than a Century of Smithsonian Marine Science

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