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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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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...

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Equipment for a Fossil Excavation

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

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Graph of magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes from 1970- April 2011

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) keeps track of earthquake locations and...

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Graph of magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes from 1900- April 2011

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) keeps track of earthquake locations and...

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Seafloor Earthquakes Study

Geophysicist Jian Lin of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and chief U.S....

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Deep Sea Drilling Vessel Chikyu

This Japanese research ship Chikyu drills into the ocean floor to learn about...

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Spiny Deepsea King Crab

This crab (Neolithodes sp.) was collected on a NOAA/MAR-ECO cruise to the...

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Life in the Field as an Underwater Photographer

Brian Skerry, an award winning photographer for National Geographic, explores the...

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Image Gallery: The Perfect Underwater Photo

For nearly 35 years, National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry has been...

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Map of the Magnitude 5.8 Virginia Earthquake of 2011

On August 23, 2011 a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the East Coast of the United...