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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....
April 2018
This recently discovered hairy crab species (Kiwa hirsuta) has no eyes.
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The Census of Marine Life

Did you know that over 17,000 species thrive in the deep sea where no light...
April 2018
A marine scientist performs a genetic analysis on a sample of deep-sea coral to find out if it is a known or new species.
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Genetic Analysis of Coral

A marine scientist performs a genetic analysis on a sample of deep-sea coral to...
Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
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Rudist Clams

Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago. They were...
"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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The Trials of Ship-Bound Research

Doing scientific research on a ship isn't always easy. On top of having to live and...
Coastal mangroves along the edge of the ocean.
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Mangroves: One Species at a Time

Follow researchers Candy Feller and Dennis Whigham from the Smithsonian...
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 22:01
A marine iguana looks off in the distance.
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Marine Iguanas: One Species at a Time

No iguana wants to be cooked alive on a hot rock and then served up as dinner for a...
Tue, 08/10/2010 - 17:06
Mistaken Point New Foundland
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Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time

When the cod fishery collapsed in Newfoundland in the early 1990s, the hopes of the...
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 15:37
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