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a cold water dive
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Cold Water Diving with WHOI

"Cold-Water Diving: Going to Extremes for Research" is a video produced by Woods...
Fri, 07/15/2011 - 17:00
a fur seal
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The Wandering Fur Seal

During the winter and spring months, tagged fur seals migrate thousands of miles in...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:03
a ship in an icy landscape
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Arctic Exploration

New technology is making it possible for scientists to go where they’ve never...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:45
lowering an ROV
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ROV Video of Stunning Creatures

Using an ROV (Remotely-Operated Vehicle) equipped with a high-definition video...
Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:53
Screenshot from video of a ship amidst broken up ice.
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Dr. Jan Backman, Marine Geologist

Drilling near the North Pole, Dr. Jan Backman reveals a brief moment in time when...
Fri, 03/26/2010 - 13:03
Karen Romano Young's 19th AntarcticLog comic
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Comics at Sea: An Antarctic Logbook

For five years, I've had a photograph of Palmer Station, Antarctica, tacked up over...
February 2018
A large red research vessel among icy waters and snowy mountains
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Shipboard Life in the Antarctic

Strapped in to a harness on the back deck of a 230-foot research vessel off the...
June 2016
Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
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Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

When I set out to write a book about mollusks (called Spirals in Time), I wasn't...
July 2015
The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling

Charles Darwin is so well known he almost needs no introduction. The 19th-century...
February 2015
In 2011, storms and lack of ice-cover due to a warmer winter climate resulted in hundreds of seal pups being washed up on the shore of Prince Edward Island. Like many, this young seal faced an uncertain future. See more Nature's Best Photos.
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Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice

The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of...
September 2013
This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
Personal Perspectives

The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...
September 2013
A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

Male fiddler crabs each have a single super-sized claw that they use as a weapon to...
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:18

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