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Plot Your Course
Charting your course on the high seas is a skill required of all...
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Political Props
Long before they disappeared from maps, sea monsters were repurposed for politics....
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A Mermaid's Vanity
A siren admires herself in a mirror—a sign of her vanity—amongst ships in the...
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The Many Footed Beast
Polypus (meaning “many-footed”) was used to describe many animals, from the...
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Whales of the Carta Marina
Two whales attack a ship as sailors try to scare them away by tossing barrels and...
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Sea Swine
This sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like...
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Mythical Creatures on Maps
An ichthyocentaur (parts human, horse and fish) plays a viol on a map of...
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Sea Monsters of an Early Atlas
Jonah is cast overboard to a sea monster in an image from the earliest known atlas,...
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow
Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead...
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil
A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will...
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Tracking CARTHE Drifters
Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to...
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