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A screenshot from the video showing illustration of penguins on ice.
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Penguins: Popularity, Peril and Poop

Penguins are odd birds. For one, they cannot fly (but they are amazing swimmers),...
Fri, 08/11/2017 - 09:34
A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
overview

Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is sometimes called “climate change’s equally evil twin,”...
April 2018
The face of a serpent eel pokes up from beneath the sand.
Photo

Sea Serpent

The serpent eel spends most of its time buried in the sand with only its...
A close-up image of the face of a whitemouth moray eel.
Photo

Whitemouth Moray Eel

The whitemouth moray eel is one of the roughly 200 species of moray eels....
A blue and yellow colored blue-ribbon eel.
Photo

Blue Ribbon Eel

All blue ribbon eels undergo an immense transformation within their lifetime. At...
A yellow ribbon eel
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Ribbon Eel

This female ribbon eel began its life as a male. All ribbon eels are born as males...
A puffin with a mouthful of fish.
Personal Perspectives

Watching for Fish in the Puffin's Beak

In recent years, I have taken to watching flying fish along the Maine coast. Not...
November 2013
A screenshot from the video showing a Palauan primitive cave eel.
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Video of the Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau)

A video of the Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau) swimming in the...
Tue, 08/16/2011 - 14:31
A brown and white dragon moray eel with its mouth open.
Article

Surprising Results Upon Reexamining the Curious Jaw of the Moray Eel

In morphology there is no such thing as insignificant detail; each observation,...
September 2019

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