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The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth and is essential to all life. But forces of change, from overfishing to climate change, are affecting the ocean and humanity's...
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The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth and is essential to all life...
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Male northern elephant seals face off on the beach by vocalizing through their...
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The Census of Marine Life - a ten-year effort by scientists from around the...
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Apr 18, 2013 - 10:35AM
Like this ctenophore ( Aulococtena acuminata ), many animals that live in the midwater zone are red—making them almost invisible in the dim blue light that filters down from the sea surface. This small comb jelly snares prey with...
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During the decade of the Census of Marine Life, more than 6,000 potential new ocean species were discovered by 2,700...
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Oct 16 2012 - 9:53am
Many expeditions in the Arctic reveal new species, such as this jellyfi sh Bathykorus bouilloni , which, strangely, has only four tentacles! Dr. Kevin Raskoff from California State University,...
Sep 7 2012 - 4:35pm
Can you spot the amphipod ( Phronima atlantica ) in the below photo? She's the transparent lobster-looking animal in the middle, surrounded by her own eggs -- inside a sac that once was the "barrel"...
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