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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

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

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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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Algae Bloom Brings a Red Tide

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

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Snakestones

Here is an ammonite, an extinct, shelled cephalopod related to the octopus and...

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What the Megalodon Left Behind

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

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Blue Carbon Infographic

When plants in the ocean die the carbon they use to build their tissues gets stored...

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Invasive Grass

In China, a marsh grass called Spartina alterniflora was introduced in...

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Invasive Species Hitch a Ride on Tsunami Debris

After the Japanese tsunami in 2011 over 280 Japanese species floated to the...

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Video of Christmas Crab Migration

The Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) makes an impressive annual...

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Seagrasses and Light in the Chesapeake Bay

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

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Connecting Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are some of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet that are home...

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Sea Ice in its Ever-Changing Forms

For two months, Cassandra Brooks, a marine scientist with Stanford University,...