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Seven New Fish Discovered
Starksia blennies, small fish with elongated bodies, generally native to shallow...![The Indo-Pacific puffer fish The Indo-Pacific puffer fish](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/lagocephalus_suezensis2.jpg.webp?itok=UG2dWZin)
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A Library of Puffer Fish DNA
Some fish you can fry up in the pan, no questions asked. Others require a bit of......![Seven of the newly discovered Starksia blennies, small fish with elongated bodies](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Seven_new_fish.jpg.webp?itok=SoJ6vM__)
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Scientists Discover Seven New Species of Fish
Starksia blennies, small coral reef fish with elongated bodies, have been......
March 2011
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Smithsonian Scientist Discovers New Fish Species
Using genetic analysis combined with traditional study of morphology, Smithsonian......![Smithsonian scientist who discovered new species in her laboratory](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Carole-Baldwin-in-her-lab_0.jpg.webp?itok=0BHufnjG)
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Five Questions for Carole Baldwin
Dr. Carole Baldwin never expected to find seven new species of fish among the......
March 2011
![Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/underwater_mangrove_edna.jpg.webp?itok=azkDL7Eo)
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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
![Placing ARMS in the Red Sea A "reef hotel" made of PVS layers on the seafloor.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Knowlton_Red_Sea_Dive_012.jpeg.webp?itok=3df_uDQV)
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Worth the Investment: Ocean Real Estate Reveals Hidden Diversity
Good real estate is hard to find. This is as true underwater as it is on land. So......
February 2015
![Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Deep-C_Rodriguez_SandFieldWork.jpg.webp?itok=e7HDuz1b)
Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts
You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to......
January 2016
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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment
Microbes are some of the most important organisms in the sea. These miniscule......
August 2014
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Molecular Explorations
Students will be able to explain and carry out a simple process for separating DNA......![On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2006867613_b93836c1ed_b_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=XntAjGhQ)
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea
Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific.......![In 2011, storms and lack of ice-cover due to a warmer winter climate resulted in hundreds of seal pups being washed up on the shore of Prince Edward Island. Like many, this young seal faced an uncertain future. See more Nature's Best Photos.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/NBPOV2012_JohnSylvester_HarpSeal.jpg.webp?itok=KDuqE6mg)
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Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice
The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of......
September 2013