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Ocean Optimism - Video

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An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulf Oil Spill

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Deep Gulf Restoration After a Monumental Oil Spill

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The Incredible Diversity of Fish: How Form Equals Function

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The Ocean’s Hidden Language: How Sound Shapes the Sea

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Bony Beginnings: The Rise of Vertebrate Innovation in the Devonian

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Oysters as a Keystone Species in the Chesapeake Bay

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The Rice's Whale

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Fecal Insights: How River Otters Help Us Understand Parasites and Ecosystem Health

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An Irrepressible Wave

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Coelacanth

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