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The Amazon River carries all the rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean. And with it, it carries vital nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and silicon.
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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...
July 2014
The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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History and Modern Science Collide for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan

Traveling aboard the Charles W. Morgan, a 173-year-old whaling ship on its 38th...
July 2014
A diver collects water samples.
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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
Brian Skerry sits on a 20 foot high underwater tripod to photograph the Aquarius Habitat off Florida.
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Portraits of Planet Ocean – Behind The Photographs

As an assignment photographer, I sometimes feel as though I am living in a vacuum,...
September 2013
A ribbon worm curled up in a mud flat.
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The Search for an Elusive Ribbon Worm

With 1,400 named species of ribbon worms inhabiting every ecosystem on earth,...
March 2013
These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

My father once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those...
December 2012
Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012
Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island

The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012
An illustration of a recently discovered species of Monodontid, Bohaskaia monodontoides, and its beluga and narwhale relatives
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...
March 2012
An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows

Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and...
January 2012
A hermit crab looks out from its coral dwelling in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
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The Perfect Underwater Photo

There is of course, no such thing as the perfect photograph, as there is no perfect...
December 2011

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