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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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Bite Size: Bull Shark Predation of Tarpon

Follow a journey with satellite tags placed on bull sharks and tarpon. Both of...

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Encounters with Bioluminescent Creatures

Scientists describe the amazing bioluminescent creatures they encounter as they...

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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....

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Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

In the spring of 2011, a research crew from Oceana spent two months in the...

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Sorting a Fish Station

Back at the lab, researchers sort the fish specimens they gathered in the field....

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Collecting Shallow-Water Specimens with the "Yabbie Pump"

The long silver tool shown here is a piece of traditional Australian fishing gear...

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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place where...

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Sleuth at Sea

Ichthyologist John R. Paxton of the Australian Museum studies freshly caught...

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Surprising Results Upon Reexamining the Curious Jaw of the Moray Eel

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