Ocean Life & Ecosystems

From the tiny to the titanic, from the familiar to the undiscovered, the ocean offers a stunning diversity of marine life and nearly every kind of habitat imaginable. Dive in and explore them here.

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Census of Marine Life: Wild and Wonderful Creatures

The Census of Marine Life was a ten-year effort by scientists from around the world to answer the age-old question, “What lives in the sea?” The international effort to asses the diversity, distribution, and...
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Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

In the spring of 2011, a research crew from Oceana spent two months in the...
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A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea

The Ross Sea, a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of...

Reef Sharks Repelled by People

Reef sharks rarely get any love. These sharks, comprising several species,...

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Bacteria on Whale Skin Tell a Tale of Health and Sickness

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Whales swimming in the ocean are never really alone. Even if one swims by itself with no other whales for miles around, it still has company—the tiny...

Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

Mar 13, 2014
The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place...

The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

Mar 5, 2014
Sea ice is typically viewed as the domain of physical and natural scientists...

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Corals and Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with perhaps one quarter of all ocean...

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