Article

Hope & Despair for the North Atlantic Right Whale Population

Late one afternoon in February 2019, Melanie White and the other members of a...

Article

Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales

In the ocean there once lived a creature built for predatory prowess. It had teeth...

Article

Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

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

Article

If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

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

Photo

Algae Bloom Brings a Red Tide

An algae called Karenia brevis can bloom into a sea of red when there are...

Article

What the Megalodon Left Behind

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

Article

On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...

video

The Amazing Horseshoe Crab

There’s a lot more to a horseshoe crab than meets the eye. They are not even...

video

Ocean Optimism Video - Slow Down For Right Whales

Whaling, beginning in the 1600s, killed thousands of North Atlantic right whales...

video

Sea Turtles Return to the Sea

Sea turtles face many obstacles throughout their lives—net entanglement, light...

video

Seagrasses and Light in the Chesapeake Bay

Seagrasses growing on the seafloor of the Chesapeake Bay rely on light to...

video

Coral Reefs Changing Over Time

How do we know what coral reefs looked like hundreds of years ago? Often times, we...