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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

 On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
Male copepods are distinctly different from female copepods.
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Male Copepod

 In many species of copepods, males are rare and short-lived. This male of...
Oikopleura gorskyi is a rare deep-water species of larvacean
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Deep-Water Larvacean

 Found in Arctic waters, this rare deep-water species of larvacean, Oikopleura...
Scientists use this box corer to study marine life.
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Launching a Box Corer

 To learn more about the creatures living on the Arctic seafloor, scientists use a...
Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates geologic features similar to pingos on the Arctic Ocean floor where methane bubbles through sediments and forms hundreds of low hills. On land, a pingo is a place where permafrost bulges beneath a dried lake bed like this one in northern Canada.
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Ocean “Pingos”

 Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates...