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As soon as Dampier set foot in Australia, he began making observations and collecting specimens of plants, which he carefully pressed between the pages of books to be studied by the “ingenious” and “curious” upon his return to England. As Dampier conducted his investigations, his artist made detailed sketches like these.

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Discoveries in Australia and New Guinea

A screenshot from the video showing a Palauan primitive cave eel.

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Video of the Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau)

A screenshot from the video of Nancy Knowlton on PBS NewsHour.

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Where did Half of the Great Barrier Reef's Coral Go?

A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.

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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.

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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem

Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.

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How Laws Around the World Help Improve Ocean Health

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

A view of the island of Moorea.

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The Moorea Biocode Project

A screenshot from video showing researchers collecting snapping shrimp off Moorea.

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Slurping Shrimp near Moorea

a fish swimming in blue water

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Visit the Line Islands with Reef Ecologist Dr. Stuart Sandin

two people in the water with mountains in the background

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Welcome to the Moorea Biocode Project

an underwater volcanic eruption

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Submarine Volcanoes Erupting