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A sea spider walks on the ocean floor.

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Sea Spider

October 2015

Dr. Maya Yamato and colleague John Ososky dissect the head of a deceased stranded fin whale in the Chesapeake Bay to examine soft tissue associated with the ears. In 2015, Yamato’s team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural H

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Learning From A Stranded Fin Whale

March 2015

A Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), a species with a normal range in the North Atlantic, interacting with the native Brandt’s cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) sighted on the Farallon Islands, located off the coast of San Francisco, California in t

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Northern Gannet in the Pacific

November 2015

A prediction of where Irma was going to hit

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Hurricane Irma's Path

October 2017

Karen Romano Young's 18th #AntarcticLog

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AntarcticLog 18

February 2018

Model of a lion’s mane jellyfish on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This jellyfish, a member of the phylum Cnidaria, can have tentacles up to 190 feet long (58 meters) and a bell almost 7 feet (2 meters) in diameter.

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Lion's Mane Jellyfish in Sant Ocean Hall

August 2017

Map of seasonal area restrictions for ships in Northeast U.S.

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Seasonal Management of Right Whales

January 2017

Pumice is the air-filled rock ejected by volcanoes during eruptions. The naturally-occurring pumice originated elsewhere, but can be found scattered on the beaches and mangroves of Belize. Here it is perched upon some mangrove prop roots.

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Pumice in Mangrove Roots

October 2017

Thumbnail of a man looking to the right with flat water in the background.

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America's First Offshore Wind Farm

August 2017

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Like a typical jelly, the tentacles of Haliscera biglowi trail behind it as it moves, causing water flow to push small organisms into the path of the jelly’s deadly stinging grip.

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Stinging Grip

March 2016

Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug

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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

January 2015

Illustrations of radiolarians from Ernst Haeckel.

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Radiolarians

June 2015