Personal Perspectives

Menopausal Moms: A Mammal Mystery

In honor of Mother's Day, the Citizens of the Sea blog salutes ocean-going mothers...

Personal Perspectives

Listening for Clues About Sonar’s Effects on Marine Mammals

Many animals depend on their eyes to navigate, find food, locate mates, and for...

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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...

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Researchers Studying Killer Whales

Researchers from the SOCAL-10 research partnership study the behavior of orcas...

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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) observed in emulsified oil on April 29,...

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Purse Seine

A purse seine is a huge wall of netting that is set in a circle around a school of...

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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

Bottom trawling is a type of fishing in which a large net is dragged along the...

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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...

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Siberian Yupik Eskimo Skin Boat

Skin boats were vital for survival of Arctic sea mammal hunters who had to navigate...

Citizens of the Sea

The incredible variety of marine life—in numbers, body form, behavior, and...

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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...

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Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area site in Kiribati was inscribed on the World...