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A screenshot from the video showing a small anemone through a microscope.

Video

Anemone Feeding Time

Chrysaora melanaster is a jellyfish found in the Arctic.

Overview

Jellyfish and Comb Jellies

Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Article

The Oil Spill, Two Years Later

The Amazon River carries all the rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean. And with it, it carries vital nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and silicon.

Article

Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

Algae growing on underwater rock

Article

Heroes of Herbivory

Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.

Overview

The Arctic and The Antarctic

A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.

Article

How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill

Ocean Food Web Listing Image

Interactive

The Missing Microbial Link in the Ocean Food Web

Researcher Greg Skomal answers students' questions about Great White Sharks.

Audio

Great White Shark: One Species at a Time

An episode of the Encyclopedia of Life's "One Species at a Time" podcast focused on the Greenland shark.

Audio

Greenland Shark: One Species at a Time

A zoomed-in image of the crown-of-thorns sea star.

Article

A Plague of Sea Stars

Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.

Article

How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep