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A Look at Life in the Deep Sea

These are just some of the animals that live in the deep ocean or in the midwater,...

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Optimism in the Deep Sea - Connecting Corals, Museums, and Ocean Managers

The deep-sea is a treasure trove of resources. Diverse ecosystems cozy up next to...

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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms

Lopping off one’s arm sounds like a harrowing experience, but for one deep-sea...

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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...

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Collaborator Research

Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...

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Mangroves: Photos of Plants and Animals

Mangrove is the name for a tree—and also for a complex ecosystem—that bridges...

Young Voices

Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

My internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History started off...

Personal Perspectives

The Discovery of Two Extreme Sea Stars

Recently, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher Chris Mah and...

Personal Perspectives

Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...

Personal Perspectives

Portraits of Planet Ocean – Behind The Photographs

As an assignment photographer, I sometimes feel as though I am living in a vacuum,...

Personal Perspectives

A Voyage of Discovery to Inner Space

The Mars rover Curiosity is sending images back home: glimpses of another world...