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 (32)
  • (-) Slideshow (7)
  • Photo (11)
  • Video (4)
  • Overview (1)

Article Type

  • Personal Perspectives (16)
  • Article (9)
  • Young Voices (1)

Topics

  • Ancient Seas (21)
  • Animal Behavior (2)
  • At The Museum (21)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Books, Film & The Arts (27)
  • Census of Marine Life (1)
  • Climate Change (3)
  • Conservation (3)
  • Coral Reefs (4)
  • Deep Sea (3)
  • Evolution (9)
  • Exploration (14)
  • Extinctions (3)
  • Fish (12)
  • Fishing (5)
  • Genetics (2)
  • Get Involved (7)
  • Gulf Oil Spill (1)
  • History & Cultures (7)
  • Ice (3)
  • Invasive Species (1)
  • Invertebrates (8)
  • Marine Mammals (16)
  • Microbes (2)
  • Ocean Life (8)
  • Plankton (1)
  • Plants & Algae (1)
  • Poles (4)
  • Pollution (10)
  • Recreation (1)
  • Reptiles (2)
  • Seafood (7)
  • Sharks & Rays (8)
  • Technology (5)
  • Temperature & Chemistry (5)
  • The Anthropocene (2)
  • Through Time (3)
  • Tides & Currents (1)
  • (-) Careers (14)
  • (-) Coasts & Shallow Water (3)
  • (-) Extinctions (13)
  • (-) Human Connections (4)
  • (-) Seabirds (3)
  • (-) Solutions & Success Stories (5)

Tags

  • (-) Ancient sea life (13)
  • (-) Geologic periods (4)
  • (-) Medicine (4)
  • (-) Native people (2)
  • (-) Ocean Trash (4)
  • (-) Photography (12)
  • (-) Polar bears (2)
  • (-) Sustainable Seafood (2)
  • Adaptations (7)
  • Albatross (4)
  • Algae (10)
  • Algae blooms (4)
  • Antarctic (2)
  • Arctic (2)
  • Art (6)
  • Beaches (11)
  • Behind-the-scenes (6)
  • Biodiversity (7)
  • Brian Skerry (8)
  • Bycatch (5)
  • Carrie Bow Cay (3)
  • Climate Change (7)
  • Coral bleaching (2)
  • Corals (17)
  • Crabs, Shrimp & Relatives (6)
  • Currents (3)
  • Deep-sea corals (2)
  • Deepwater Horizon (7)
  • Defenses (2)
  • DNA barcoding (3)
  • Dolphins & Porpoises (4)
  • Education (6)
  • Endangered species (7)
  • Events (3)
  • Feeding (5)
  • Films (2)
  • Fisheries (18)
  • Fossils (18)
  • Geology (2)
  • Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (6)
  • Harvesting Wisely (2)
  • Hurricanes (2)
  • Lionfish (2)
  • Manatees & Dugongs (2)
  • Mangroves (10)
  • Maps (5)
  • Marine Snow (2)
  • Maritime history (8)
  • Marshes (3)
  • Migration (4)
  • Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (2)
  • National Museum of Natural History (21)
  • New discoveries (8)
  • News (6)
  • NOAA (11)
  • Ocean Acidification (2)
  • Oceanography (7)
  • Ocean Optimism (27)
  • Oil spills (8)
  • Paleobiology (12)
  • Penguins (5)
  • Phytoplankton (2)
  • Predation (4)
  • Protecting Spaces (20)
  • Puffins (2)
  • Reducing Pollution (2)
  • Reproduction (10)
  • Research vessels (9)
  • Restoring Habitats (12)
  • ROVs (4)
  • Runoff (3)
  • Saving Species (6)
  • Scientists at work (33)
  • Scuba diving (5)
  • Seagrass (5)
  • Seals & Sea Lions (4)
  • Sea turtles (6)
  • Seaweed (2)
  • Senses (2)
  • Shark finning (2)
  • Sharks (10)
  • Shifting Baselines (4)
  • Smithsonian collections (4)
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (3)
  • Smithsonian exhibits (3)
  • Smithsonian scientists (35)
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (9)
  • Snails & Slugs (2)
  • Tagging (3)
  • Technology (18)
  • Under the microscope (2)
  • Vents & Volcanoes (2)
  • Waves (2)
  • Weather (3)
  • Wetlands (4)
  • Whales (21)
  • Women in Science (12)
  • Worms (2)
  • Zooplankton (4)
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
A shark tooth embedded in a bone
Article

What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...
July 2018
The Peninsula Valdes in Argentina was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The site is home to important breeding populations of the endangered southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and southern sea
slideshow

Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery

Marine World Heritage is a prestigious list of 43 marine ecosystems and...
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:54
Photograph of the model of a Giant Megatooth Shark, taken from the front..
slideshow

Shark Ancestors

Long before great white sharks appeared, much larger ancestors roamed the ocean....
Thu, 12/17/2009 - 17:55
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
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
A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
Article

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...
August 2016
Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
Article

Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants

You may not have realized it, but you’ve been acquainted with Mary Anning since...
March 2016
One of several rowboats that were sunk in front of Lake Hotel at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park in the early 20th century.
Personal Perspectives

Underwater Parks in 3-D

As I readied myself and my camera for a dive in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body...
January 2015

Pagination

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • 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