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Close-up of Sargassum algae with golden-brown fronds and numerous round, yellow air bladders clustered among the leaves. A young boy in a neon yellow shirt and red shorts sits in shallow water on a sandy shore, with a dense blanket of brown sargassum algae covering the sea near Fajardo, Puerto Rico. A Sargassum fish, Histrio histrio, camouflaged among floating brown sargassum algae near the ocean surface in the tropical Pacific. A red tractor with a front loader removes large piles of brown sargassum seaweed from the sandy beach near the ocean in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Sargassum
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Sargassum
The brown algae known as Sargassum is sometimes called sea holly because...
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Sargassum in Puerto Rico
A young boy sitting in the shallow water as a vast belt of Sargassum blankets...
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Sargassum fish
A well-camouflaged sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) blending in with floating...
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Sargassum clean-up
A tractor removing large amounts of Sargassum that has washed up on the...
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