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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...

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Tracking Tsunamis

Tsunamis, giant waves caused by underwater earthquakes, speed across the ocean at...

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The Ocean Drilling Vessel Chikyu

The Chikyu allows scientists to gather and study data about seafloor sediments as...

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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

Deep sea animals have to live in a very cold, dark, and high-pressure environment...

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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

The ocean is so big that it can be easy to forget the microscopic beauty of the...

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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

Believe it or not, this unraveling thread is from hagfish slime. Hagfish are...

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Branching Red Algae

Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....

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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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Psychedelic Tardigrade

Tardigrades, which are usually less than 1 mm long, can be found in almost every...

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Technology and Sea Turtles

Sea turtles may have survived the planetary changes that killed the dinosaurs, but...

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Brian Skerry's Photography Gear

Brian Skerry warily stares down his photography equipment on board the vessel...

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Tagging a Leatherback Sea Turtle

Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are listed as critically endangered...