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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

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

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