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From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...

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New Orleans is a city defined by Mardi Gras, jazz, and oysters – lots of oysters....

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Areas of Louisiana's coastal marsh became covered in oil following the BP oil...

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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...

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Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...

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The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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The rise and fall of the ocean tides is a predictable phenomenon influenced by the...