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Screenshot from video with large kelp leaves floating in the ocean.
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A Kelp's Slime

Kelp provide a home for microbes to grow on—they're the reason kelp are so slimy....
Wed, 07/03/2019 - 15:55
Microscopic beach dweller in the sand.
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Organisms Beneath the Sand

What’s lurking beneath your beach blanket? Even when a beach looks empty, the...
Wed, 06/07/2017 - 15:48
Dr. Candy Feller, Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center underscores the challenges facing mangroves, along with reasons for hope. 
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Living on the Edge: Mangroves

Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...
Wed, 09/28/2016 - 12:06
A screenshot from the video showing a volunteer talking about mangrove restoration.
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Miami Connects Art and Mangrove Restoration

In coastal towns and cities, vast areas now inhabited by super markets, houses,...
Thu, 01/08/2015 - 08:34
A screenshot from the video of seagrass in Chesapeake Bay.
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Seagrasses and Light in the Chesapeake Bay

Seagrasses growing on the seafloor of the Chesapeake Bay rely on light to...
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 09:35
Screen shot of "Sea Grapes: A Google Earth Tour" with aerial view of the Earth in Google Earth.
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Sea Grapes: A Google Earth Tour

“Sea grapes” may sound like something Poseidon would snack on, and not a killer...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 10:16
California sea lions swimming
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Sea Lion Sickness

Both humans and sea lions get sick from eating fish and shellfish that have been...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:36
A squat lobster and blackbelly rosefish find shelter on a Lophelia pertusa coral reef off the southeastern United States.
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Deep-sea Corals

It may be the last place you’d expect to find corals—up to 6,000 m (20,000 ft)...
April 2018
On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....
April 2018
Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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Seagrass and Seagrass Beds

Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the...
April 2018
A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

Male fiddler crabs each have a single super-sized claw that they use as a weapon to...
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:18
A screenshot from the video showing trash on a rocky beach.
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Trash on the Beach and in the Ocean

While conducting field work in Curaçao in 2011, Smithsonian researchers...
Thu, 07/28/2011 - 12:01
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