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What the Megalodon Left Behind
The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...
July 2018
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Off Base
Students define terms pH and buffer. Students explain in general terms the...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:21
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The Puzzle of Ice Age Americans
Students describe alternative theories for arrival of first humans to come to...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:19
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Oceans of Energy
Students describe forms of energy found in the ocean and explain how they are used...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:13
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Animals of the Fire Ice
Students define and describe methane hydrate ice worms and hydrate shrimp. Students...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:06
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The Methane Circus
Students will describe the overall events that occurred during the Cambrian...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 18:31
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows
In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...
August 2016
Personal Perspectives
4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird
Most people have never heard of the Hawaiian petrel, an endangered, crow-sized...
May 2013
Personal Perspectives
Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale
Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...
March 2012
Personal Perspectives
Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale
My graduate student Jorge and I are departing today for Panama, to excavate a...
June 2011
Teams of Robots Can Help Us Build 3D Maps of the Ocean
One of the trickiest problems in marine science is figuring out how to map the...
August 2017
When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?
More recently than you might think, say scientists who scoured the fossil...
July 2016