Skip to main content
Smithsonian Institution
Language Search Smithsonian Ocean
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Flickr Follow us on Tumbr
Donate

Smithsonian Ocean

Main Menu

  • Ocean Life
    • Marine Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Reptiles
    • Seabirds
    • Fish
    • Invertebrates
    • Plankton
    • Plants & Algae
    • Microbes
  • Ecosystems
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deep Sea
    • Coasts & Shallow Water
    • Poles
    • Census of Marine Life
  • Planet Ocean
    • Tides & Currents
    • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis
    • The Seafloor
    • Temperature & Chemistry
  • Through Time
    • Ancient Seas
    • Extinctions
    • Evolution
    • The Anthropocene
  • Conservation
    • Fishing
    • Pollution
    • Habitat Destruction
    • Invasive Species
    • Acidification
    • Climate Change
    • Gulf Oil Spill
    • Solutions & Success Stories
    • Get Involved
  • Human Connections
    • Books, Film & The Arts
    • Recreation
    • Seafood
    • Exploration
    • History & Cultures
    • Careers
  • At The Museum
  • Educators
Menu

Search

Showing results for "All"
Filter

Content type

  • (-) Article (14)
  • (-) Slideshow (6)
  • Video (4)
  • Photo (3)
  • Audio (1)
  • Lesson Plan (1)
  • Overview (1)

Article Type

  • Article (6)
  • Personal Perspectives (3)

Topics

  • Animal Behavior (2)
  • At The Museum (9)
  • Books, Film & The Arts (2)
  • Careers (3)
  • Climate Change (3)
  • Conservation (2)
  • Coral Reefs (1)
  • Deep Sea (2)
  • Evolution (4)
  • Exploration (9)
  • Extinctions (1)
  • Extinctions (4)
  • Fish (7)
  • Fishing (5)
  • Genetics (2)
  • Get Involved (7)
  • Gulf Oil Spill (1)
  • History & Cultures (6)
  • Ice (3)
  • Invasive Species (1)
  • Invertebrates (4)
  • Marine Mammals (9)
  • Microbes (2)
  • Ocean Life (2)
  • Poles (3)
  • Pollution (10)
  • Seafood (7)
  • Technology (3)
  • Temperature & Chemistry (4)
  • The Anthropocene (2)
  • Through Time (1)
  • Tides & Currents (1)
  • (-) Ancient Seas (9)
  • (-) Coasts & Shallow Water (2)
  • (-) Human Connections (4)
  • (-) Seabirds (3)
  • (-) Sharks & Rays (1)
  • (-) Solutions & Success Stories (3)

Tags

  • (-) Geologic periods (8)
  • (-) Native people (2)
  • (-) Ocean Trash (5)
  • (-) Polar bears (2)
  • (-) Sustainable Seafood (2)
  • Adaptations (9)
  • Albatross (4)
  • Algae (10)
  • Algae blooms (4)
  • Ancient sea life (17)
  • Arctic (3)
  • Art (5)
  • Beaches (11)
  • Behind-the-scenes (4)
  • Biodiversity (9)
  • Brian Skerry (4)
  • Bycatch (6)
  • Carrie Bow Cay (3)
  • Chemistry (2)
  • Citizens of the Sea (3)
  • Climate Change (8)
  • Coral bleaching (2)
  • Corals (15)
  • Crabs, Shrimp & Relatives (6)
  • Currents (2)
  • Deepwater Horizon (3)
  • Dolphins & Porpoises (6)
  • Education (3)
  • Endangered species (10)
  • Events (2)
  • Feeding (7)
  • Films (3)
  • Fisheries (22)
  • Fossils (23)
  • Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (3)
  • Harvesting Wisely (2)
  • Lionfish (2)
  • Manatees & Dugongs (4)
  • Mangroves (10)
  • Maps (3)
  • Maritime history (7)
  • Marshes (3)
  • Migration (5)
  • Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (4)
  • National Museum of Natural History (17)
  • New discoveries (5)
  • News (6)
  • NOAA (8)
  • Ocean Acidification (2)
  • Oceanography (2)
  • Ocean Optimism (27)
  • Oil spills (5)
  • Paleobiology (16)
  • Penguins (4)
  • Photography (8)
  • Phytoplankton (2)
  • Predation (8)
  • Protecting Spaces (21)
  • Puffins (2)
  • Reducing Pollution (2)
  • Reproduction (10)
  • Research vessels (2)
  • Restoring Habitats (10)
  • Runoff (3)
  • Saving Species (6)
  • Scientific illustrations (2)
  • Scientists at work (18)
  • Scuba diving (4)
  • Seagrass (6)
  • Seals & Sea Lions (4)
  • Sea turtles (11)
  • Seaweed (2)
  • Senses (5)
  • Shark finning (6)
  • Sharks (21)
  • Shifting Baselines (5)
  • Skates and rays (4)
  • Smithsonian collections (3)
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (4)
  • Smithsonian exhibits (4)
  • Smithsonian scientists (37)
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (9)
  • Snails & Slugs (2)
  • Symbiosis (2)
  • Tagging (4)
  • Technology (11)
  • Under the microscope (3)
  • Vents & Volcanoes (2)
  • Waves (2)
  • Weather (2)
  • Wetlands (4)
  • Whales (26)
  • Women in Science (5)
Narwhals with their long unicorn-like tusks.
Article

Native Knowledge of the Narwhal

The narwhal is an elusive mammal. During the winter months they feed in the deep...
March 2020
Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.
Article

If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...
October 2018
A female napoleon wrasse swims by a reef
Article

An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...
September 2018
An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.
slideshow

The Ocean Throughout Geologic Time, An Image Gallery

Evidence shows that life probably began in the ocean at least 3.5 billion years...
Tue, 09/20/2011 - 15:30
Color illustration of an ancient bivalve.
slideshow

Rudist Reefs

About 100 million years ago, during the heyday of the dinosaurs, reefs were built...
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 14:25
A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Cambrian Period, featuring an arthropod, annelids, and other animals.
slideshow

A Collection of Cambrian Fossils

When you're standing in a museum surrounded by fossils, you can almost imagine...
Tue, 10/01/2013 - 10:03
Henry the Fish is made completely out of colorful plastic that washed up on Oregon beaches.
slideshow

Washed Ashore: From Beach Trash to Ocean Art

From a distance, Henry the Fish looks like a typical quirky and colorful sculpture...
Wed, 07/17/2013 - 17:20
Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.
slideshow

Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem

Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) are incredible birds. They have a...
Fri, 05/10/2013 - 14:47
A polar bear and its cub in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
slideshow

Celebrating Marine Moms

The ocean is home to many moms of all shapes and sizes: from charismatic polar...
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 17:29
An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida
Personal Perspectives

The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows

Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and...
January 2012
Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
Personal Perspectives

New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

The evolution of whales represents one of the great stories in macroevolution. It's...
September 2011
Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
Personal Perspectives

Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

We drove down a long dirt road on the northern side of Curaçao looking for a...
July 2011

Pagination

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Next page Next
  • Last page Last
  • Sort By Relevance
  • A-Z
  • Z-A
  • Newest
  • Oldest

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Ocean
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Flickr Follow us on Tumbr
Contact Us

Explore

  • Ocean Life
  • Ecosystems
  • Planet Ocean
  • Through Time
  • Conservation
  • Human Connections
  • At The Museum
  • About
  • Media Archive
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Donate
  • Ocean Life
    • Marine Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Reptiles
    • Seabirds
    • Fish
    • Invertebrates
    • Plankton
    • Plants & Algae
    • Microbes
  • Ecosystems
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deep Sea
    • Coasts & Shallow Water
    • Poles
    • Census of Marine Life
  • Planet Ocean
    • Tides & Currents
    • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis
    • The Seafloor
    • Temperature & Chemistry
  • Through Time
    • Ancient Seas
    • Extinctions
    • Evolution
    • The Anthropocene
  • Conservation
    • Fishing
    • Pollution
    • Habitat Destruction
    • Invasive Species
    • Acidification
    • Climate Change
    • Gulf Oil Spill
    • Solutions & Success Stories
    • Get Involved
  • Human Connections
    • Books, Film & The Arts
    • Recreation
    • Seafood
    • Exploration
    • History & Cultures
    • Careers
  • At The Museum
  • Educators

Search Smithsonian Ocean