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Pacific ocean perch

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Julie Packard
Julie Packard
  • Female seaweed blennies deposit their eggs in a shared nest where the male fish guards them until they hatch.

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Heather Willauer holding samples of synthetic fuel

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An aerial view of NOAAS Pisces (R 226)

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An empty shell of Halystina umberlee

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  • Flashes of light emitted by the sea snail Hinea brasiliana may act as a "burglar alarm".

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Sand steenbras

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Artist's restoration of a school of Brachypterygius

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Landing on Stac Lee (from St Kilda)

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  • The Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean".

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Painting of two sailing ships, sails fully rigged, exchanging cannonfire on a choppy blue-green sea

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  • Clover grass used to grow in the Pacific Ocean, but has not been seen there since a severe storm in 1996.

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  • Henry Seamount was hydrothermally active in the last 4,000 years even though it is 126 million years old.