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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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows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 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
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
Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Making Science Sing: The Longest Time (Coral Triangle Edition)

How do you make science sing? Just ask a couple of female scientists to sing about...
July 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
Jeweler Palovi Baezar with her first set of lionfish earrings, which she made in the summer of 2013.
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When Life Gives You Lionfish…

It was the summer of 2013, and Phil Karp was staring at a dead lionfish. Earlier,...
July 2017
Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.
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Struggling to Survive, But with a Chance to Thrive

Progress for Eight Endangered Ocean Creatures From snails to whales,...
January 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
Happy World Ocean Day!
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Coral Letters: A Message from the Corals of Curacao

If you look closely, you can read a message in the corals. We are not being...
June 2015
A piece of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit.
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When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef

The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking...
October 2010
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