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What is a Sea Vegetable?

Take a trip to the produce aisle in any Western country’s grocery store and you...

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A Kelp's Slime

Kelp provide a home for microbes to grow on—they're the reason kelp are so slimy....

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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...

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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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Fronds of Nori

Nori grows as paper thin fronds. ...

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Nori Wraps

Nori is a seaweed used to wrap the inner contents of sushi rolls.  ...

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Stringy Algae

Spindles of magnified cyanobacteria of the Lyngbya genus.  ...

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A Cancer Fighter from the Sea

The medicine cabinet may seem like a mysterious treasure trove of pills that cure...

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Palmaria Fronds

A red alga with leafy, red fronds similar to lettuce, dulse (Palmaria palmata) is a...

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Branching Red Algae

Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....

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Killer Algae (Caulerpa taxifolia)

A strain of this green seaweed, native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, escaped...

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Dugong Feeding

Dugongs, along with manatees, make up a group of marine mammals called sirenians or...