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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows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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Efforts to Protect the Critically Endangered Monk Seal

Monk seals -- the only completely tropical species of seal in the world -- are in...

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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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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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Tale of a Whale

Students exercise their observation skills to do some of the actual work of marine...

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Native Knowledge of the Narwhal

The narwhal is an elusive mammal. During the winter months they feed in the deep...

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Still Blue After a Century of Ocean Science and Exploration

This year marks 100 years since the National Museum of Natural History opened its...

Personal Perspectives

Plastic Trash Plagues the Ocean

Once upon a time, the ocean was considered the last place where we could still find...

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The Puzzle of Ice Age Americans

Students describe alternative theories for arrival of first humans to come to...

Lesson Plan

How Raven Stole the Sun

Students will learn about the legend of the raven in the oral traditions and...

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Ocean Objects of Wonder

As humans, we are constantly learning. Not only as individuals from the moment we...