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Stories of Success from a Reef Report Card
Coral reef ecosystems face daunting threats worldwide. Human impacts, such as...
May 2020
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Brittle Star Splits
Splitting your body in two is a feat only a few animals can complete, and now...
January 2020
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Heroes of Herbivory
Coral restoration, often in the form of growing corals in a lab or in field-based...
June 2020
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Many Eyes, Many Perspectives: The Astonishing Visual Systems of Hyperiids
In any given scoop of seawater, you will find an assortment of tiny critters called...
January 2020
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Solidifying the Dolphin Family Tree
With their cartoon-smile faces and intelligent interactions, dolphins have become...
December 2019
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The Case of the Mystery Whale
In 1871, John Anderson, then curator of the Indian Museum of Calcutta, caught wind...
October 2019
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Surprising Results Upon Reexamining the Curious Jaw of the Moray Eel
In morphology there is no such thing as insignificant detail; each observation,...
September 2019
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The Story of Stashed Whale Baleen
In 2012, John Ososky, a specimen preparator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum...
September 2019
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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms
Lopping off one’s arm sounds like a harrowing experience, but for one deep-sea...
August 2019
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Sickness in the Sea: A Coral Plague Hits Florida
Florida corals had a rough 2014. During that year higher than normal ocean...
August 2019
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The Tons that Whales Eat...and Poop
How much do whales eat? As you'd imagine, it's a lot. Smithsonian scientist Nick...
Tue, 11/02/2021 - 11:53
When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?
More recently than you might think, say scientists who scoured the fossil...
July 2016