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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
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
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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