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Illustration of Robotic Glider Evading Fishing Nets
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Robotic Ocean Explorer

This is the world’s first unmanned, underwater robot—or “glider”—to cross...
Wed, 12/08/2010 - 12:08
A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Collaborator Research

Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:02
X-ray image of a winghead shark
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X-Rays of Fish Reveal Diversity

Scientists in the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
Thu, 12/17/2009 - 18:00
The People's Reef--Part of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
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The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of...
Thu, 10/14/2010 - 17:10
A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

The ocean is so big that it can be easy to forget the microscopic beauty of the...
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 10:34
Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:47
A Hawaiian Lure
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Hawaiian Lure

This octopus lure called a leho he`e is a tool of trickery. The octopus...
A Cuttlefish with its arms splayed
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Little Cuttlefish, Big Attitude

A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to grow corals before transferring them to a larger tank. You can see several staghorn coral colonies - it has a branching structure and the white tips indicate healthy, new g
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Tank at St. Lucie County Aquarium

A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to...
Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug
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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry...
Gulf Marsh Animals Bounce Back But Monitoring Continues: One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the spill, since oil spill impacts don't often happen immediately. One group of GoMRI researchers studied salt marsh anim
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Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the...
Blue Crab walking in wet sand.
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Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

We often assume that an oil spill means instant death or long-term harm to all...

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