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This bait ball shows how small fish can react when larger predators are near, gathering tightly together in a ball-like formation that exposes the least number of fish.
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Bait Ball

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Spiral-tufted bryozoan
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A Bryozoan's Medical Endosymbiont

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Kelps are large, brown algae that grow along coasts around the world, especially in cooler regions.
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Kelp Pennant

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A pearlfish, which lives in the orange sea cucumber's anus, emerges to feed.
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Pearlfish from a Sea Cucumber

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A four-foot long fish sculpture has fins and tail made with recycled rakes.
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The Rakefish Project

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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A Right Whale Named Phoenix

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This painting of swarthy buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle was painted by the prolific American marine painter Frederick J. Waugh, and won the Thomas B. Clarke award in 1910 for the best American figure composition.
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The Buccaneers painting

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Freshly cut dorsal fin from a scalloped hammerhead shark held by fisherman with knife.
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Shark Finning: Sharks Turned Prey

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Welcome to the mangrove forest, where the daily rhythm of the tides sets the pace. These coastal wetlands create a sanctuary for an extraordinary range of creatures, three-fourths of all tropical fish are born here and countless reptiles and birds cal
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Inside the Mangrove Forest

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The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1998. The islands are particularly notable for the abundance and diversity of nesting pelagic seabirds and penguins (including macaroni penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus,
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New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands, New Zealand

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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Komodo National Park, Indonesia

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The Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek site in Canada and the United States was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1979. The sites protected areas along the boundary of Canada and the United States of America are the larg
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Kluane/Wrangell-St Elias/Glacier Bay/Tashenshini-Alsek, Canada & the United States

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