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This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...
September 2013
Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

The open ocean is surprisingly barren to the naked eye. Every now and again you...
May 2012
Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible
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Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea

Last week, Smithsonian research zoologists Dr. Jerry Harasewych and Dr. Martha...
July 2011
A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth

When he was 10 years old, Stephen Cairns lived in Cuba where he kept a collection...
May 2011
Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.
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Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

We all know to avoid touching or eating oil (the fossil fuel variety that is)....
March 2015
This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

Now that the Census of Marine Life is over, we’re checking in with some of its...
May 2014
Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.
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Coral Scientist Brendan Roark: On an Urgent Mission

Deep-sea coral beds are true biodiversity hotspots. It’s urgent that we study...
July 2011
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