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“I took this photograph of spinner dolphins in calm waters off the Ogasawara Islands, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 600 miles south of Tokyo. When the sun briefly broke through the clouds, our shadow was mirrored in the water’s surface—an
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Spinner Dolphins Ogasawara Island, Tokyo, Japan

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Salps are tube-shaped, soft, transparent animals that swim through the ocean, straining out plant food as they go.
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Antarctic Salps

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Aerial image of Hurricane Bill
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The Ingredients for a Hurricane

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Dr. Nancy Rabalais: Troubled Waters in the Gulf of Mexico

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With all the talk of ocean calamities are ocean scientists and communicators making the same mistake as Chicken Little?
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Chicken Little

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The shell of a sea slug
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A Microscopic Identity Crisis

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Paleobiologist Mark D. Uhen drills away rock to reveal the fossilized bones of Peruvian archaeocetes (ancient whales), in the Vertebrate Paleontology Department at the Museo de Historia Natural de San Marcos. Uhen is a professor at George Mason Univer
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Preparing a Fossil Whale Specimen

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A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.
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Make Me Care About: Phragmites

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A screenshot from the video of a carver using traditional tools to shape a canoe.
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Carver Douglas Chilton at Work

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