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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...

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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...

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Mysteries of the Mesopelagic

The open ocean - everything except the coast and bottom - is not the same at...

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Plot Your Course

Charting your course on the high seas is a skill required of all...

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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...

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What is Marine Archaeology?

What exactly is marine archaeology? It is the study of past human...

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Political Props

Long before they disappeared from maps, sea monsters were repurposed for politics....

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A Mermaid's Vanity

A siren admires herself in a mirror—a sign of her vanity—amongst ships in the...

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The Many Footed Beast

Polypus (meaning “many-footed”) was used to describe many animals, from the...

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Whales of the Carta Marina

Two whales attack a ship as sailors try to scare them away by tossing barrels and...

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Sea Swine

This sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like...

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Mythical Creatures on Maps

An ichthyocentaur (parts human, horse and fish) plays a viol on a map of...