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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s...

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Veracruz Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...

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Texas State Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...

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ROV Recovers Volcano Monitor

The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS recovers a volcano monitor from NOAA’s New...

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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...

Dancing for the Oceans

If you were choreographing a dance about the ocean, how would you do it? Would you...

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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...

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Light Painting Tutorial

What does a bioluminescent creature that lives more than two miles below the...

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Podcast: Sharon Katz Cooper on Building the Sant Ocean Hall

Building the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall―like any major exhibition―was a...

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With their huge number of venomous stinging cells, jellyfish aren’t very cuddly....