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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 screenshot from the video of colorful corals.
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Slow Life: Time-Lapse on the Coral Reef

How does a coral spend its day? Most of us would say: not doing much. To the human...
Thu, 02/15/2018 - 10:59
a medicine bottle with an image of the ocean
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Medicines from the Sea

You may not think of the ocean as a pharmacy but scientists are developing exciting...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:08
A crab sits on a coral with a sponge covering its head
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A Sponge Crab's Updo

The sponge on this crab's back is more than a stylish accessory. The sponges are...
Tiny sponge spicules.
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Sparkling Sponge Spicules

These sparkling sponge spicules are microscopic needle-like structures that many...
Seagrasses don't just provide shelter for free-swimming animals, but also are a habitat for non-moving organisms, such as these sea anemones.
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Anemone on Seagrass Blade

Seagrasses don't just provide shelter for free-swimming animals, but also are a...
An Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) crosses a seagrass bed.
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Cuttlefish in Seagrass Bed

Squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, such as this Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia...
How Many Nights of Hanukkah? A harp has its own place in holiday music, but we also think this sponge looks like a super-sized menorah! This newly-discovered carnivorous sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) was found using robotic submersibles operated by the
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Harp Sponge

This newly-discovered carnivorous sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) was found using...
A juvenile swimming crab sits on a bed of sargassum seaweed.
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Adult Swimming Crab

When they get larger, Portunus sayi are formidable predators, quick to consume any...
Winner of the ‘best camoflauge’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica is betrayed only by motion.
Photo

Seaslug Camouflages in Seaweed

Winner of the ‘best camouflage’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica...
Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.
Photo

Brown Grass Shrimp

Another common species of sargassum shrimp, Leander...
This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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Shrimp hides in the sargassum

One of the most common inhabitants of the sargassum community, the shrimp Latreutes...

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