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The ultra-black Pacific blackdragon forms a circular shape with its body.
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Scientists Find First Ultra-Black Color in Deep-Sea Fishes

While out collecting invertebrates for research, Karen Osborn, a research zoologist...
July 2020
Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep

It is a well-known fact that for animals living in the deep sea, food can be...
February 2013
Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

Students will be able to explain light in terms of electromagnetic waves and...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 18:35
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Teaching Physical Science Through Oceanography

This supplement was developed for university level students, but can be adapted for...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 17:36
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Dr. Robert Ballard with an ROV
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Five Questions for Robert Ballard

As children, many people have dreamed of plunging beneath the ocean surface to...
August 2010
The robotic underwater glider Scarlet Knight crossed the  Atlantic over the course of several months in 2009.
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Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean

Glider Technology Now Used to Study Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico The first...
October 2010
Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation

Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

For over a decade, Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center archaeologist, William...
September 2011
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