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Giant Ocean Tank
The New England Aquarium's Giant Ocean Tank has been given a top-to-bottom, 21st-century transformation. The four-story exhibit has a new coral reef, more than 1,000 animals, and bigger windows made of a crystal-clear acrylic. (Size: 2 MB Photo Credit: W. Chappell)
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Myrtle the 550-pound green sea turtle passes through a crowd of tropical fishes as she moves through the freshly installed coral replicas in the Giant Ocean Tank at the New England Aquarium. (Size: 1.8 MB Photo Credit: W. Chappell)
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Visitors get a closer look at nearly 2,000 passing animals in the New England Aquarium's Giant Ocean Tank. The exhibit's windows have been expanded and replaced with a clearer acrylic material. (Size: 3.9 MB Photo Credit: W. Chappell)
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The New England Aquarium welcomed two California sea lion pups, Zoe and Sierra, in August 2011. (Size: 5.4 MB Photo: K. Ellenbogen)
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Zoe the California sea lion pup plays with one of her toys in the New Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center at the New England Aquarium (Size: 4.7 MB Photo: K. Ellenbogen)
Click here for hi-resShark and Ray Touch Tank
Visitors reach into the water to touch passing sharks and rays at the New England Aquarium's The Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank. It opened April 2011. (Size: 10.6 MB Photo: S. Cheng)
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Cownose rays in the Aquarium's The Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank exhibit. It opened April 2011. (Size: 9.6 MB Photo: S. Cheng)
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Biologist Eric Payne reviews a rescued sea turtle's X-ray in the Animal Medical Center at the New England Aquarium.
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(Size: 2.4 MB Photo: S. Cheng)Animal Care Center
A rescued sea turtle is examined at the Aquarium's off-site Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass. (Size: 6.1 MB Credit: C. Leblanc)
Click here for hi-resRescued Sea Turtle
A sea turtle affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is cleaned by rescue workers. Aquarium experts were among the first called to field stations after the oil spill.
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(Size: 1 MB Credit: C. Merigo)Examinations
A rescued sea turtle is examined for treatment at the New England Aquarium's off-site Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass.
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(Size: 4.1 MB Credit: C. Leblanc)Whale Family
A North Atlantic right whale mother and calf. Taken under a Scientific Research Permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service/NOAA
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(Size: 2.2 MB Credit: New England Aquarium)Atlantic Right Whale Research Program
Aquarium researchers gathering data on a group of North Atlantic right whales. The Aquarium's North Atlantic Right Whale Research Program is the oldest of its kind.
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(Size: 872 KB Credit: New England Aquarium)Whale Research
An Aquarium researcher observing a whale from the bow of a research vessel. (Size: 2.6 MB Credit: New England Aquarium)
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A member of the 2010 Joint Aquarium Fiji Expedition dives among coral. (Size: 3.7 MB Credit: K. Ellenbogen)
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A member of the 2009 Phoenix Island Expedition, lead by researchers from the New England Aquarium, performs a coral transect. (Size: 1 MB Credit: J. Stringer)
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A member of the 2009 Phoenix Islands Expedition lead by researchers from the New England Aquarium swims near a coral canyon. (Size: 7 MB Credit: D. Obura)
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Animals
Giant Pacific octopus
Click here for hi-resOrange lobster
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Click for hi-resMyrtle the green sea turtle takes a breath
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Click for hi-resNorthern fur seal
Click for hi-resMandarinfish
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Building
The shark wall
The New England Aquarium presents various species of shark at actual size. It is just one of many new features created by a recent renovation. Visitors can experience all the new exhibits at the Aquarium starting July 1
Click for hi-resThe Giant Ocean Tank
Click for hi-resAquarium Harborwalk view
Click for hi-resNew Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center interior
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Click for hi-resNew England Aquarium Plaza, Central Wharf, Boston, Mass.
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Visitors
New England Aquarium's Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank.
Visitors reach into The Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank.
Click for hi-resNew England Aquarium's Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank.
A visitor touches a cownose ray at the New England Aquarium's Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank.
Click for hi-resNew Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center
Visitors watch trainers working with Northern fur seals in the New Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center at the New England Aquarium.
Click for hi-resNew Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center at the New England Aquarium
Visitors get some close-up photos of one of the California sea lion pups in the New Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center at the New England Aquarium.
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Visitors watching Atlantic harbor seals on the New England Aquarium plaza.
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Visitors watch tropical fish swimming through a Pacific coral exhibit at the New England Aquarium.
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Children visiting the Atlantic harbor seal exhibit on the New England Aquarium plaza.
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