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Student Comic Winner: The Impact of Global Warming

Sometimes, the key to understanding a complex scientific concept comes from a...

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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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

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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

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

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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

For residents of the Marshall Islands, a system of over a thousand islands found on...

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Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

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

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Jellyfish predate dinosaurs. How have they survived so long?

Gelatinous drifters that move in a mesmerizing way, jellyfish are beautiful...

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Sharks are also afraid of shark attacks

Caribbean reef sharks are not the reef's top predator. A fearful reef shark...

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Living on the Edge: Mangroves

Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...

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Anemone Feeding Time

Anemones are known for serving as homes for Nemo and countless other small fish and...

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Penguins: Popularity, Peril and Poop

Penguins are odd birds. For one, they cannot fly (but they are amazing swimmers),...

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Bite Size: Bull Shark Predation of Tarpon

Follow a journey with satellite tags placed on bull sharks and tarpon. Both of...

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Seagrasses and Light in the Chesapeake Bay

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