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![Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Team_Breakfast_Pyenson_small.jpg.webp?itok=HD1SScLI)
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A Squalodontid Success
On a beach in PiƱa, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal......![A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Sub151_w.jpg.webp?itok=CnAoEVL1)
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A New Ocean Zone Described with the Help of a Submersible
Beneath vibrant coral reefs, but above the lightless depths of the sea, lies the......
June 2018
![Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/hsj_4315_mosasaur_skull_small.jpg.webp?itok=0SVo5e_o)
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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come
Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of......
October 2018
![Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/adey_small.jpg.webp?itok=adQCaFD9)
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The Evolution of a Reef Aquarium
In the late 1970s, Walter Adey, a paleobiologist and coral reef researcher at the......
October 2017
![A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Sub151_w.jpg.webp?itok=CnAoEVL1)
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Keeping Exploration Alive With Manned Submersibles
The Ocean Portal was lucky enough to join the Deep Reef Observation Project team...
October 2015
![Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/CrabCollecting_in_sub.jpg.webp?itok=ZLzk-ONW)
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Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea
Last week, Smithsonian research zoologists Dr. Jerry Harasewych and Dr. Martha......
July 2011
![A photo of a sea toad specimen.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/MOC11598_Chaunax_pictus_dorsaltank.jpg.webp?itok=9auBhzTa)
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A Sub and a Sea Toad
Have you ever seen a creature so unusual? This fish (22 cm long) is called a sea......
July 2011
![A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Sub151_w.jpg.webp?itok=CnAoEVL1)
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Summer in a Sub: DROP Down to Discovery
You never know where following your passions can take you. I came to the......
July 2011