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Students of the Alaska SeaLife Center delegation.
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Teens Take Action on the Ocean & Climate

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...
Tue, 02/08/2011 - 16:37
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

On a beach in PiƱa, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
A map of the early European whaling site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada
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Archaeologists Investigate an Early Whaling Community

For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologist, William Fitzhugh, has been...
Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:32
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
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
Intense volcanic CO2 vents in Ili Ili Bua Bua, Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea.
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Will Coral Reefs Survive Acidification?

Nestled among the beautiful coral reefs of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a place that...
Thu, 08/02/2012 - 15:34
This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum Slideshow

Smithsonian Marine Science Network Postdoctoral Fellow, Seabird McKeon, returns...
Fri, 05/18/2012 - 16:43
A pink sea cucumber covered in small spike-like protrusions.
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Sea Cucumber: One Species at a Time

What reef animal comes in a rainbow of crazy colors, can throw out its stomach to...
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 03:20
Find out how you get two Giant Squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in Spain to a museum Washington, DC.
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Giant Squid: One Species at a Time

How do you get two dead giant squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in...
Wed, 06/02/2010 - 12:31
Coastal mangroves along the edge of the ocean.
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Mangroves: One Species at a Time

Follow researchers Candy Feller and Dennis Whigham from the Smithsonian...
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 22:01
A close-up image of red coral polyps.
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Star of the Reef: One Species at a Time

Each month, the Naked Oceans podcast invites a leading marine researcher to pick...
Fri, 09/10/2010 - 15:03
Aerial view of two bowhead whales swimming in the ocean.
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Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time

In the episode of One Species at a Time, writer Karen Romano Young takes an...
Mon, 10/25/2010 - 18:18

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