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Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.
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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...
October 2018
A bloom of algae from up above
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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...
August 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
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
Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Surveying Life On Sea Turtles

“It is strange to think of a sea turtle as an ecosystem,” says Amanda...
November 2011
An algal bloom, also known as a red tide, has converted the ocean's surf to a red color
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Scientists Work to Predict and Prevent Algae Blooms

Algae, like all organisms, normally grow in balance with their ecosystems, limited...
July 2011
The robotic underwater glider Scarlet Knight crossed the  Atlantic over the course of several months in 2009.
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Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean

Glider Technology Now Used to Study Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico The first...
October 2010
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