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A male mudflat fiddler crab (Uca rapax) waves its huge claw to impress females and threaten competitors.
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The Mudflat Fiddler Crab

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The Raven Spirit is now prominently displayed in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall.
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The Canoe's Permanent Home

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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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This is North Atlantic right whale #3333 who was spotted with fishing gear trailing from his mouth during an aerial survey off the coast of Georgia on January 29, 2008.
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Whale Entanglement

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New England Aquarium researchers Dr. Moira Brown and Yan Guilbault conducting aerial surveys for North Atlantic right whales over the Roseway Basin, Canada.
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Right Whale Aerial Survey

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Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates geologic features similar to pingos on the Arctic Ocean floor where methane bubbles through sediments and forms hundreds of low hills. On land, a pingo is a place where permafrost bulges beneath a dried lake bed like this one in northern Canada.
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Ocean “Pingos”

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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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To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San Diego Sediment Research Group) studied the environmental impact of dredging sediment from the waterways.
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Saving Venice, Italy

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NOAA’s New Millennium Observatory was set up to study geologic, chemical, and biologic interactions along the mid-ocean ridge system. Here, a remotely operated vehicle (ROPOS) recovers a volcano monitor in the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific, west of Oregon.
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Studying the Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Marine biologist Gerald Kooyman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has documented climate-induced changes to emperor penguin habitats and impacts on how the penguins feed, breed, and raise their young.
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Emperor Penguins

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

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S. pharaonis. Photographed in an aquarium at the visitor's center for the Hatfield Marine Science Center at Oregon State University.
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Pharaoh Cuttlefish

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