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Red Anemone Clings

A still from The Changing Sea, part of the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival...

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Giant Squid Myth

A giant squid attacks a boat - something that has not been known to happen in real...

Personal Perspectives

One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

My father once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those...

Personal Perspectives

The Perfect Underwater Photo

There is of course, no such thing as the perfect photograph, as there is no perfect...

Personal Perspectives

Make Me Care About: Phragmites

This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...

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Make Me Care About: Phragmites (Video)

Dennis Whigham, a senior botanist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center,...

When Life Gives You Lionfish…

It was the summer of 2013, and Phil Karp was staring at a dead lionfish. Earlier,...