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No Longer Anonymous: Anna Atkins and her Algae
In the 1850s, a new image capturing technology called photography was just in its......
September 2023
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Young Pettibone
Marian Pettibone (left) and colleague Frances Paulson (right), racing down a sandy......![a black and white photo of a woman holding a glass award](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Cleaned_Landscape_800px-Marian_H__Pettibone_at_Her_Retirement_copy.png.webp?itok=C15UTlgZ)
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Pettibone and an Award
Dr. Marian Pettibone at her retirement ceremony in 1978, holding a glass vase......![a black and white photo of a woman holding a glass award](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Cleaned_Landscape_800px-Marian_H__Pettibone_at_Her_Retirement_copy.png.webp?itok=TvAjNBuM)
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Dr. Marian Pettibone, A Woman of Firsts
Sixty years ago, when women more commonly assumed roles as secretaries or......
March 2023
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What the Megalodon Left Behind
The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow......
July 2018
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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean
DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even......
July 2018
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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor
Until very recently oceanography was a field dominated by men. A seafaring career,......
July 2016
![Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/DG001578_tif.jpg.webp?itok=iIsSv7-e)
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants
You may not have realized it, but you’ve been acquainted with Mary Anning since......
March 2016
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Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady
Eugenie Clark grew up spending her weekends at the aquarium. Her father died when......
March 2018
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Teams of Robots Can Help Us Build 3D Maps of the Ocean
One of the trickiest problems in marine science is figuring out how to map the......
August 2017
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It’s All in the (Jellyfish) Family
With their huge number of venomous stinging cells, jellyfish aren’t very cuddly.......
August 2017
![An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/arrow_worm_alverino.jpg.webp?itok=iV-Ihyo9)
Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes
Latin names of species may seem boring—a litany of extra-long names in a dead......
August 2017