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A close-up image of red coral polyps.
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Star of the Reef: One Species at a Time

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A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

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An illustration depicting many sea animals living in the modern seas off Angola.
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Modern Benguela Current Ecosystem

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Side view of a great white shark swimming in bright blue water.
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Great White in the Sunlight

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Of the eight million metric tons of plastic dumped in the ocean every year, much of it ends up on beaches like this one in Tanzania. But some companies are working to change that high statistic.
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Trash On a Tanzanian Beach

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An adult leatherback turtle makes its way back to shore from the ocean.
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Female Leatherback Turtle Crawls From The Sea To Nest

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Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

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Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

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A piece of the Institute For Figuring’s Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef known as the Ladies Silurian Atoll.
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Ladies Silurian Atoll from the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

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This is the cover of the book Dampier wrote about his first trip around the world.
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Book Cover for Dampier's Account of his First Trip Around the World

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Kemp's Ridley Hatchling

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An offshore cage is stocked with 70,000 Pacific threadfin (Polydactylus sexfilis).
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Commercial Aquaculture

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