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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...
March 2019
a bull shark in a net
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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...
July 2018
A green mahi-mahi fish underwater
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Fish Heart Out of Water

Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...
June 2018
a heart in a petri dish
video

Dispatches from the Gulf: Centers of Innovation

After the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, scientists needed to understand exactly how the...
Mon, 06/11/2018 - 10:15
A screenshot from the video showing a school of swimming fish.
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Bite Size: Bull Shark Predation of Tarpon

Follow a journey with satellite tags placed on bull sharks and tarpon. Both of...
Wed, 12/16/2015 - 09:38
Screenshot from video with the face of a great white shark swimming at the screen.
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Are Sharks Scary?

What is scarier: sharks or extinction? This video from Save Our Seas puts whether...
Fri, 12/18/2009 - 14:20
Students from Grady High School, part of the Georgia Aquarium Delegation, are researching the impacts of climate change on loggerhead sea turtles in the south Atlantic ocean.
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Georgia Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...
Brian Skerry sits on a 20 foot high underwater tripod to photograph the Aquarius Habitat off Florida.
Personal Perspectives

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 whale shark swims with a diver off the coast of East Africa.
Personal Perspectives

The Big Five of the Ocean: Exploring the Waters of East Africa

When we think "Africa," we think of the "Big Five"—lions, elephants, leopards,...
November 2012
On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.

Fish Get Risky Around Oil

Whether you are fish or human, taking risks is a part of life. But what happens...
September 2017

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