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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?
Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...
August 2018
slideshow
Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery
Marine World Heritage is a prestigious list of 43 marine ecosystems and...
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:54
slideshow
The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea
Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:47
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Seaside Lichens
Very few plant species can survive close to the ocean, where pounding surf fills...
August 2015
slideshow
Foraminifera
Microscopic, single-celled organisms called foraminifera have a fossil record that...
Thu, 03/25/2010 - 16:23
Personal Perspectives
A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum
The open ocean is surprisingly barren to the naked eye. Every now and again you...
May 2012
Personal Perspectives
Menopausal Moms: A Mammal Mystery
In honor of Mother's Day, the Citizens of the Sea blog salutes ocean-going mothers...
May 2011
Personal Perspectives
A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean
Welcome to Citizens of the Sea, a new blog series where ocean life comes to life....
October 2010
Article
The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...
March 2018
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales
When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
A Microscopic Identity Crisis
Using DNA to identify larval species in the Gulf Stream Unseen by the human eye,...
August 2017
Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes
Latin names of species may seem boring—a litany of extra-long names in a dead...
August 2017