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Aerial view of a North Atlantic right whale mother and calf.
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Hope & Despair for the North Atlantic Right Whale Population

Late one afternoon in February 2019, Melanie White and the other members of a...
May 2019
A female napoleon wrasse swims by a reef
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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...
September 2018
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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows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 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
A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

In the frigid Arctic Ocean, a mysterious toothed whale—the narwhal— resides...
August 2017
A Kemp's Ridley sea turtle is returned to the ocean.
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Images: Conserving Endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles

Esther Horvath began documenting the efforts to protect Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles...
April 2016
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