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detail from the cover of Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall

Hunting the Great White Whale-Thing on Jupiter

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Detail from the cover of Aliette de Bodard's Navigational Entanglements

Jellyfish in Space! — Aliette de Bodard’s Navigational Entanglements

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Photo of a Portuguese Man o' War above shallow water

Marine Life Weirder Than Space Aliens

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Underwater photo of several large pink jellyfish clustered together

 A Real-Life Monster Movie

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Photo of bioluminescent jellyfish

The Lore and the Weird Magic of the Jellyfish

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Image of a Greenland Shark swimming beside a human in a wetsuit holding an underwater camera

Down the Rabbit Hole: Searching for the Greenland Shark

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Illustration of the Greenland Shark from History of the Fishes of the British Islands (1877)

Oldest of the Old: The Greenland Shark

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Image of Ocean Ramsey swimming with a shark in the documentary Shark Whisperer

Up Close With Predators: Ocean Ramsey’s Shark Whisperer

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Underwater photo of a grey reef shark

Misunderstood Monsters: The Truth About Sharks

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Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) wields a chainsaw against an incoming shark in a scene from Sharknado 2: The Second One

The Heirs of Jaws

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Chief Brody on the beach looking out in fear as a shark attack takes place in a scene from Jaws

Jaws: The Greatest Shark Epic of Them All

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Illustration of a giant oarfish

Meet the OG Sea Serpent: The Giant Oarfish

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Photo of bioluminescent coral

Creatures of the Abyss: An Exercise in Science-Fictional Thinking

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Ed Harris in The Abyss

It Was Like a Dance of Light: The Abyss (1989)

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Detail from the cover of And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness (Art by Rovina Cai)

Moby-Dick Turned Upside Down: Patrick Ness’ And the Ocean Was Our Sky

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Photo of a paper cutout of a sperm whale illustration sitting upright in the sand

Learning to Decode Whale Language: Dawn of the Universal Translator

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Engraving of whaling boats attacking a pod of sperm whales from Thomas Beale's The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (Art by W.J. Linton)

 A Deep Dive Into the World of the Sperm Whale

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Illustration of the white whale rising out of the water and attacking a whalers' longboat, from an 1892 edition of Moby-Dick; art by Augusts Burnham Shute

A Master Class in Epic Worldbuilding: SFF Bestiary Tackles Moby-Dick

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Fossilized whale bones shown in NOVA: When Whales Could Walk

Evolution in Action: PBS’ When Whales Could Walk

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Detail from the cover of Startide Rising by David Brin

Dolphins Ascendant: David Brin’s Startide Rising

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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