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The Sant Ocean Hall is the National Museum of Natural History's largest exhibit, providing visitors with a unique and breathtaking introduction to the majesty of the ocean
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The Sant Ocean Hall Turns Ten

The ocean is essential to all life, and covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface....
September 2018
A shark tooth embedded in a bone
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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...
July 2018
a bull shark in a net
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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...
July 2018
Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.
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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...
July 2018
The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

There are thousands of marine invertebrate animals in the ocean, from small to...
June 2018
Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank
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The Evolution of a Reef Aquarium

In the late 1970s, Walter Adey, a paleobiologist and coral reef researcher at the...
October 2017
An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Ocean Objects of Wonder

As humans, we are constantly learning. Not only as individuals from the moment we...
March 2017
A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...
August 2016
A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

Large whales are notoriously hard to study. Except when rising to breathe, they...
March 2015
A "reef hotel" made of PVS layers on the seafloor.
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Worth the Investment: Ocean Real Estate Reveals Hidden Diversity

Good real estate is hard to find. This is as true underwater as it is on land. So...
February 2015
A walrus sits on top of ice.
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The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

Sea ice is typically viewed as the domain of physical and natural scientists, the...
March 2014
Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...
March 2014

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