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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...
August 2018
Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

Very few plant species can survive close to the ocean, where pounding surf fills...
August 2015
A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

The Kemp’s ridley is a “riddler” among sea turtles. Although the species was...
May 2014
Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

Any floating object in the ocean tends to attract life; fishermen know this and...
July 2013
The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Marine Parasites: Crazy…and Really Cool!

Marine parasites may be small in size, but they can be present in very high numbers...
December 2012
A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
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The Great Hermit Crab Migration

Over the last few days, a video of hermit crabs stampeding across the rocky shores...
September 2012
Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico
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Tagging and Tracking Animals Underwater

How do we know where ocean animals swim day and night? Scientists are getting...
May 2012
Cartoon t-shirts with got plankton.
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The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...
March 2018
Hundreds of illustrated red crabs gathering on sand with Santa hats.
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Here Comes Santa Claws

Santa isn’t the only long-distance traveler in a red suit—at the beginning of...
December 2016
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