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Very colorful array of jellyfish.
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Jellyfish predate dinosaurs. How have they survived so long?

Gelatinous drifters that move in a mesmerizing way, jellyfish are beautiful...
Tue, 09/05/2017 - 09:34
Screenshot of Christmas Island Red Crab Hatching
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Video of Christmas Crab Migration

The Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) makes an impressive annual...
Wed, 12/14/2016 - 13:45
A screenshot from the video showing a translucent jellyfish in deepwater.
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Blackwater Drifting

Some of the most otherworldly animals—like those straight from a science fiction...
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:06
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
a diver in blue water
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Blue Water Diving with WHOI

"Inside the Open Ocean: Blue Water Diving" produced by Woods Hole Oceanographic...
Fri, 07/15/2011 - 16:51
Screenshot from video showing tiny foraminifera.
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Foraminifera on the Seafloor

Dr. Karen Bice studies the foraminifera in ocean sediment to better understand...
Fri, 03/26/2010 - 12:01
A screenshot from the video showing a dumbo octopod swimming in water.
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Video of Cirrate Octopod aka Dumbo Octopus

This octopod is sometimes called a “Dumbo” octopod because its fins resemble...
Fri, 04/06/2018 - 09:44
A screenshot from the video showing red and white tube worms.
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Hydrothermal Vent Creatures

Travel to a world of perpetual night--the deep ocean hydrothermal vents near the...
Fri, 12/03/2010 - 12:59
A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
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Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is sometimes called “climate change’s equally evil twin,”...
April 2018
A photo of Oceana's ice class research vessel, the Hanse Explorer, on the Baltic Sea.
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Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

In the spring of 2011, a research crew from Oceana spent two months in the...
Wed, 10/12/2011 - 16:56
A couple inches wide and up to ten feet long, the bobbit worm stays hidden under tropical sands with just its five antennae poking out—waiting for prey to swim by.
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The Bobbit Worm

There aren't any mummies or zombies buried under the seafloor: instead the ocean...

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