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A screenshot from the video showing scientists holding a small shark preparing for tagging.
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Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

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Headshot of Uta Passow looking at camera.
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Uta Passow

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Off Base

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

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Two Adélie penguins on Paulet Island, Antarctica
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Penguins

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a woman with short black hair and a long necklace of pearls sits in front of a microscope and holds a small button coral
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Joan Murrell Owens and her Button Corals

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Human activity is increasing in the Arctic marine environment due to climate change. To help the most vulnerable areas, the Global Marine Program of IUCN, along with partners, is convening a series of workshops aimed at enhancing ecosystem-based management and identifying biologically or ecologically important or vulnerable habitats. Burgerbukta, a bay in Svalbard, Norway, is being managed for ecosystem protection.
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What is the Sea Ice Minimum? (And Why Do We Care)

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Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

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A puffin with a mouthful of fish.
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Watching for Fish in the Puffin's Beak

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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