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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Where Does it Live, and What Does it Eat?

Students research the habitat and food of organisms living in a mangrove estuary,...
Fri, 12/11/2009 - 16:42
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Where There’s Smoke…

Students explain how fundamental relationships between melting and boiling points,...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 11:59
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What Was for Dinner?

Students will be able to compare and contrast photosynthesis and chemosynthesis as...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 18:43
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Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
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Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

Who hasn’t grinned at the sight of a sea otter floating on its back while...
May 2017
Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
Article

Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses

Slip into the water along a sheltered coast in nearly any part of the world and...
May 2015
Grey reef sharks are among the most versatile and tough predators on a Pacific coral reef, but they are also among the most vulnerable species, as they are threatened by wasteful fishing practices like shark finning.
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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place where...
March 2014
A newly established black mangrove sits in a field of salt marsh near the northern limit of mangroves in Florida. Mangroves have been expanding near their northern limit in Florida and the expansion is linked to a reduction in the frequency of ex
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Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places

Over the past several decades, Florida’s coastal wetlands have been changing....
February 2014
Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep

It is a well-known fact that for animals living in the deep sea, food can be...
February 2013
Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.
Personal Perspectives

What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

Imagine: You’re in a small submersible, and you gently settle on the soft muddy...
July 2012
The Havre volcano lies three thousand feet (900 meters) beneath the sea surface.
Article

The Mystery of an Underwater Volcano

Three thousand feet (900 meters) beneath the sea surface, in the middle of the...
March 2018
A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
Article

Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
A brittle star clings to the branches of a deep sea coral

A Brittle Star May Be a Coral’s Best Friend

Five thousand feet (1,524 meters) beneath the sea in the Gulf of Mexico, an...
August 2017

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