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Bioluminescence

You may have seen the sparkle of fireflies on a summer’s night. The fireflies...

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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller...

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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

The shells of radiolarians rank among some of the treasures of the ocean, with...

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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...

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A Diatom Helix

This beautiful marine diatom Chaetoceros debilis was caught in the North Sea. Not...

Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes

Latin names of species may seem boring—a litany of extra-long names in a dead...

Personal Perspectives

Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

Now that the Census of Marine Life is over, we’re checking in with some of its...