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Jorge Velez-Juarbe, predoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Jorge Velez-Juarbe

Jorge Velez-Juarbe is Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of...
Yolanda Villacampa, Museum Specialist - Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Museum Specialist Yolanda Villacampa

Yolanda Villacampa is a museum specialist in the invertebrate zoology department of...
Ian G. Macintyre, Curator of Carbonate Sedimentology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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NMNH Paleobiology Curator Ian Macintyre

Ian G. Macintyre, Curator of Carbonate Sedimentology, Smithsonian National Museum...
A diver collects water samples.
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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

My father once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those...
December 2012
A large ship flushes water from its ballast tanks while at sea
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5 Invasive Species You Should Know

Regardless of what continent you live on, the waters that surround it are home to...
September 2011

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