Photo

Tiny Ciliate

This Blepharisma japonicum is a single-celled protist called a ciliate, a...

Photo

Cyanobacteria

This blue-green microbe called a cyanobacterium was likely the first photosynthetic...

Article

Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion

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

Article

How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...

video

Mysteries of the Mesopelagic

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

Article

How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...

video

Hurricane Storm Surge

Storm surge is the most deadly part of a hurricane or tropical storm. Winds can...

Article

Fish Heart Out of Water

Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...

video

Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

Where do sharks like to hangout? Turns out we largely don’t know. But Smithsonian...

video

The Ocean We Love

As we celebrate Earth Day, we can’t overlook the largest and wettest part of our...

video

Deep Sea Dive

NOAA Ocean Today Every Full Moon takes you on a dive to the depths of the...

video

A Battle With Octocoral for Food

Although not strictly speaking a predator, a sea-anemone-like animal called a...