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Tiny Ciliate

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

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Giant Squid Caught on Camera

In 2019 an expedition funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

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Cyanobacteria

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

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Ammonoids

Though today cephalopods are best known as soft-bodied creatures such as squid and...

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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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Mysteries of the Mesopelagic

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

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Hurricane Storm Surge

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

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Mangrove Forest

Mangroves are trees and shrubs that aren’t necessarily closely related to one...

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Floating Propagules

After mangrove flowers are pollinated the plants produce seeds that immediately...

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Mangrove Forest Diversity

A mangrove forest is categorized into five types of forest-based upon its...

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Mangroves of the World

Mangroves grow in sheltered tropical and subtropical coastal areas across the...

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Mangrove Sunset

Mangrove trees are flooded every day as the tides flow in and out. ...