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Celebrating World Oceans Day

Emily Frost - Jun 7, 2013
Those of us who can't see the ocean from our window might feel disconnected from the life there. It might seem that, because the ocean feels far away, its problems will only harm those people...

4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird

Anne Wiley - May 24, 2013
Most people have never heard of the Hawaiian petrel, an endangered, crow-sized seabird that spends the majority of its life searching for food over the North Pacific Ocean. Nevertheless, this...

Salmon Recycling: Waste Not, Want Not

Sean Sheldrake - May 8, 2013
As a research diver for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one of my jobs is to make sure that people and companies working in the fish industry don’t dump too much waste in the ocean...

Virtual Book Reading with Daniel Botkin

Daniel Botkin - May 2, 2013
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Daniel Botkin's new book The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered. He will be in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 8th for a...
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Jelly Critters: Gelatinous zooplankton

Grades: 3-5, 6-8

Coral Reef Symbiosis

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Global Warming Wheel Card Activity

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Benthic communities of the Arctic Ocean

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Today's Catch

Colorful Crabs

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Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Trapezia Crabs Watercolors

These watercolor sketches of Trapezia crabs were drawn by Frederick Bayer, a former Smithsonian coral biologist, in 1947. Trapezia crabs live on and within corals, feeding on their tissue and...
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