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 (22)
  • (-) Slideshow (5)
  • Photo (23)
  • Video (8)
  • Overview (1)

Article Type

  • Article (9)
  • Personal Perspectives (6)

Topics

  • Ancient Seas (9)
  • Animal Behavior (13)
  • At The Museum (14)
  • Beaches (4)
  • Books, Film & The Arts (28)
  • Careers (12)
  • Census of Marine Life (3)
  • Climate Change (5)
  • Conservation (3)
  • Coral Reefs (9)
  • Deep Sea (5)
  • Evolution (7)
  • Exploration (17)
  • Extinctions (1)
  • Fish (18)
  • Fishing (7)
  • Food Web (4)
  • Genetics (3)
  • Get Involved (7)
  • Gulf Oil Spill (4)
  • History & Cultures (7)
  • Ice (3)
  • Invasive Species (1)
  • Invertebrates (18)
  • Mangroves (1)
  • Marine Mammals (14)
  • Microbes (4)
  • Ocean Life (9)
  • Plankton (2)
  • Plants & Algae (3)
  • Poles (5)
  • Pollution (13)
  • Recreation (1)
  • Reptiles (2)
  • Seafood (7)
  • Sharks & Rays (6)
  • Sights, Sounds & Games (1)
  • Technology (7)
  • Temperature & Chemistry (5)
  • The Anthropocene (2)
  • The Seafloor (1)
  • Through Time (1)
  • Tides & Currents (2)
  • (-) Coasts & Shallow Water (9)
  • (-) Extinctions (4)
  • (-) Human Connections (4)
  • (-) Seabirds (7)
  • (-) Solutions & Success Stories (7)

Tags

  • (-) Feeding (5)
  • (-) Geologic periods (4)
  • (-) Native people (2)
  • (-) Ocean Trash (4)
  • (-) Photography (3)
  • (-) Polar bears (2)
  • (-) Reproduction (10)
  • (-) Sustainable Seafood (2)
  • Adaptations (7)
  • Albatross (4)
  • Algae (10)
  • Algae blooms (4)
  • Ancient sea life (12)
  • Arctic (2)
  • Art (2)
  • Beaches (11)
  • Behind-the-scenes (3)
  • Biodiversity (6)
  • Bycatch (4)
  • Carrie Bow Cay (3)
  • Climate Change (6)
  • Coral bleaching (2)
  • Corals (12)
  • Crabs, Shrimp & Relatives (4)
  • Currents (2)
  • Deepwater Horizon (3)
  • Dolphins & Porpoises (4)
  • Education (3)
  • Endangered species (7)
  • Events (2)
  • Films (2)
  • Fisheries (18)
  • Fossils (17)
  • Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (3)
  • Harvesting Wisely (2)
  • Lionfish (2)
  • Manatees & Dugongs (2)
  • Mangroves (10)
  • Maps (3)
  • Maritime history (7)
  • Marshes (3)
  • Migration (4)
  • Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (2)
  • National Museum of Natural History (15)
  • New discoveries (5)
  • News (6)
  • NOAA (8)
  • Ocean Acidification (2)
  • Oceanography (2)
  • Ocean Optimism (27)
  • Oil spills (5)
  • Paleobiology (12)
  • Penguins (4)
  • Phytoplankton (2)
  • Predation (4)
  • Protecting Spaces (19)
  • Puffins (2)
  • Reducing Pollution (2)
  • Research vessels (2)
  • Restoring Habitats (10)
  • Runoff (3)
  • Saving Species (6)
  • Scientists at work (16)
  • Scuba diving (2)
  • Seagrass (5)
  • Seals & Sea Lions (3)
  • Sea turtles (5)
  • Seaweed (2)
  • Senses (2)
  • Shark finning (2)
  • Sharks (6)
  • Shifting Baselines (4)
  • Smithsonian collections (2)
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (3)
  • Smithsonian exhibits (2)
  • Smithsonian scientists (29)
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (8)
  • Snails & Slugs (2)
  • Tagging (3)
  • Technology (9)
  • Under the microscope (2)
  • Vents & Volcanoes (2)
  • Waves (2)
  • Weather (2)
  • Wetlands (4)
  • Whales (21)
  • Women in Science (3)
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
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
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
School of blue rockfish in a kelp bed.
Article

Stinkin' Seaweed Makes Tasty Food for Coastal Animals

Most people try to avoid rotting kelp at the beach. The feeling of a floating piece...
October 2014
A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
Article

Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

The Kemp’s ridley is a “riddler” among sea turtles. Although the species was...
May 2014
A puffin with a mouthful of fish.
Personal Perspectives

Watching for Fish in the Puffin's Beak

In recent years, I have taken to watching flying fish along the Maine coast. Not...
November 2013
This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
Personal Perspectives

The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...
September 2013
Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
Personal Perspectives

Behind the Photo: The Primal Ocean

A few years ago, I was in New Zealand photographing a story about the value of...
October 2012

Pagination

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • 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