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  • A Tale of a Right Whale
    Sep 30 2009 - 2:03pm
    Meet Phoenix—One of about 450 remaining North Atlantic Right Whales

  • Raven Spirit: A Native American Canoe's Journey
    Oct 7 2009 - 4:08pm
    Under a watchful raven’s eye, this handmade Tlingit canoe became a symbol of the ocean and of Alaska’s Native peoples. Over the course of a year, Douglas Chilton skillfully chipped away at a cedar...
  • Scientist tagging a great white shark

    Collaborator Research
    Dec 1 2009 - 11:02am
    Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of little-known transparent creatures, and other recent scientific research is being conducted by Ocean Portal Collaborators. 
  • Map of Smithsonian science research field stations

    Smithsonian Research Stations
    Dec 2 2009 - 3:42pm
    These Smithsonian field stations enable scientists worldwide to conduct long-term studies on mangrove ecosystems from a range of latitudes.

  • Zooxanthellae
    Dec 3 2009 - 1:14pm
    Tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthella live in the tissues of many animals, including some corals, anemones, and jellyfish, sponges, flatworms, mollusks and foraminifera. These microscopic...
  • A painting of Reverend Moses Harvey of Newfoundland buying a dead giant squid caught by fishermen in 1874

    From Mermen to Architeuthis, Our Fascination with the Giant Squid
    Dec 4 2009 - 1:28pm
    Humans have long been captivated by what we now call the giant squid (Architeuthis). This image gallery gives a glimpe into our fascination with the animal. For a long time, people saw mysterious...

  • Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals
    Dec 4 2009 - 3:05pm
    Coral reefs support an amazing array of life forms many of them beautiful, some of them downright bizarre. Dive in and take a look through this photo gallery.

  • Rudist Reefs
    Dec 4 2009 - 3:25pm
    About 100 million years ago, during the heyday of the dinosaurs, reefs were built by mollusks called rudist clams. They looked very different from today's coral reefs.

  • Seamounts, A Deep-Sea Habitat
    Dec 4 2009 - 3:41pm
    Thousands of seamounts—most of them undersea volcanoes—tower above the muddy seafloor. They provide something hard to come by in the deep ocean: a solid surface to cling to. This photo gallery shows...
  • A Right Whales Shows Its Baleen

    Baleen: From Whales to People
    Dec 8 2009 - 11:51am
    For being so big, right whales eat very small food, which they catch using baleen. Baleen is the series of fringed plates hanging in right whales' mouths that are used to strain seawater for food....

  • Exploring the Ocean with Robots and Submarines
    Dec 8 2009 - 3:11pm
    To explore the deep ocean, scientists rely on numerous pieces of high-tech equipment. This photo gallery showcases some of the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), submersibles, and other devices that...

  • Deep Ocean Census of Marine Life
    Dec 8 2009 - 3:21pm