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Dr. Jan Backman, Marine Geologist

Drilling near the North Pole, Dr. Jan Backman reveals a brief moment in time when...

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The Arctic and The Antarctic

Travel to the ends of the earth—literally—and discover the polar ocean basins....

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A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea

The Ross Sea, a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean...

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Antarctic Minke Whale

The elegant Antarctic minke whale feeds on krill (tiny crustaceans) during the...

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Bowhead Whales

The bowhead whale has a massive, bow-shaped skull to break through thick Arctic...

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Arctic Copepod

This copepod Calanus hyperboreus (up to 7mm in length) lives...

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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) are the most abundant baleen whale in the...

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Humpback Whale in Antarctic Waters

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) can be found in Antarctic waters during the...

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Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time

In the episode of One Species at a Time, writer Karen Romano Young takes an...

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The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...

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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

In the frigid Arctic Ocean, a mysterious toothed whale—the narwhal— resides...