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a rip current along a beach with a pier
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A Rip Current On the Shore

Not all currents occur at such a large scale. Individual beaches may have rip...
shallow pans carved out of the sea coast create many pools with a seascape in the background
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The Salt Pans

The Mediterranean is super salty due to intense evaporation. Here, locals in...
arrows represent water movement
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The Ekman Spiral

As wind blows over the surface layer of water, friction between the two pulls the...
an older map shows ocean surface currents using arrows
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Surface Currents

This is a map ocean surface currents from 1877. ...
a ribbon on the globe represents oceanic currents
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Thermohaline Circulation Map

Differences in temperature and salinity drive deep ocean currents. ...
a map of the globe that includes major wind patterns
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Wind Patterns Drive Currents

The major wind patterns drive oceanic currents. ...
a map of North America with the swirling tides
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Visualizing Currents

Currents on the ocean surface are driven by wind, temperature, gravity, and the...
400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones...
Smithsonian researchers with fossil whale skulls from the group Monodontidae
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a New Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes living belugas and narwhals, are...
dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

Dugongs, along with manatees, make up a group of marine mammals called sirenians or...
A photo of an arid ocean cliff in Chile's Atacama Desert with the ocean below.
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert

Smithsonian curator of fossil marine mammals Nick Pyenson and a team of...
A Smithsonian scientist with a whale fossil he excavated
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Panama Expedition Success

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

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