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A screenshot from the video showing equipment on a research vessel.
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Wavechasers and the Samoan Passage

Watch as a team of wave chasers heads to Somoa where they search for an undersea...
Wed, 12/02/2015 - 09:46
A screenshot from the video showing a bioluminescent seastar.
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The Weird, Wonderful World of Bioluminescence

“It’s a little appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make...
Wed, 04/18/2018 - 09:37
a deep-sea submersible
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Submersible Collects Deep-Sea Corals

Come along as scientist Dr. Brendan Roark narrates a submersible dive to collect...
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 14:07
Screenshot of video showing ship on the ocean.
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Scientists Explore the Ocean in Alvin

Take a tour of the Alvin, a three-person submersible that allows scientists to...
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:07
Screenshot from video of a scientist discussing experience in a submersible.
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Scientists Discuss their Submersible Experience

Scientists talk about the experience of exploring the ocean in this excerpt from...
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:00
A screenshot from the video "Integrated Ocean Drilling Program" showing the front of a research vessel moving through water.
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Scientists from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) collect sediments...
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 21:49
Screenshot from video "Deep Ocean Explorers" that shows view from below of submersible Alvin underwater.
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Deep Ocean Explorers

The submersible Alvin carries scientists to the deep ocean, where they encounter...
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 21:05
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
A variety of corals cling to Manning Seamount, just off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Seamounts, A Deep-Sea Habitat

Thousands of seamounts—most of them undersea volcanoes—tower above the muddy...
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 14:41
Like a cake, the ocean has different layers—each with its own characteristics.
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Ocean Layers

Like a cake, the ocean has different layers—each with its own characteristics....
A map of the Mid Ocean Ridge
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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor

Until very recently oceanography was a field dominated by men. A seafaring career,...
July 2016
Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.
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The Discovery of Two Extreme Sea Stars

Recently, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher Chris Mah and...
May 2015

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