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An image of the face of a telescope fish with large pearly eyes.
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Telescope Fish

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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In Search of the Giant Squid

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A gang of king penguins.
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King Penguins, Right Whale Beach, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean

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the foamy surface of the ocean
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Waves in Motion

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A ship sets a longline
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Longline

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A still from the animated movie showing a skeleton holding a graph that charts rising rising carbon dioxide for a school of fish to see.
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Carbon Dioxide Up

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Secrets of the Sediments

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals

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a blue-ringed octopus with eggs in a seashell
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Greater Blue-ringed Octopus and Eggs

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Scientists use satellite images of the ocean to estimate chlorophyll concentrations in the water. You can see the yellow swirls of phytoplankton concentrated at the sea surface in this image.
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Satellite Image of Chlorophyll Concentration

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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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Bubble of Oil On The Seafloor

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