Oceans

The Great Barrier Reef

Ocean Acidification and the Battle Between Coral and Seaweed

Ocean acidification creates plenty of potential problems for life in the oceans, but corals might have it the worst

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Hydrothermal Vents Fertilize Oceans With Fool's Gold

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Humpback Whale Songs Spread From West to East

An Octopus Vulgaris at the Palma Aquarium in Spain

Fourteen Fun Facts About Squid, Octopuses and Other Cephalopods

The cephalopod world is huger and more fascinating than the limited taste of the restaurant world

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Marine Archaeologists Find Shipwreck Linked to Moby Dick

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The Shark That Will Give You More Nightmares Than Jaws

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Finding Science in the Art of Arcimboldo

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La Nina Brings Flooding to Australia

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Looking Forward to the International Year of Chemistry

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Ten Science Stories You Should Have Read

My ten favorite Smithsonian science and nature stories from the past year

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Where Little Fiddler Crabs Like to Hide

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Did Broken Buoys Fail to Warn Victims of the Mentawai Tsunami?

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Ocean More Diverse than Expected, Census Finds

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The World's Oldest Living Organisms

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Hurricanes' Dangerous Rip Currents

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A Jellyfish Summer

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The Mimic Octopus

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Hurricanes and the Color of the Oceans

Jellyfish such as these Northeast Pacific sea nettles in Monterey Bay Aquarium, are brainless, bloodless and mostly aimless.

Jellyfish: The Next King of the Sea

As the world's oceans are degraded, will they be dominated by jellyfish?

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A Coral Reef Constructed From Yarn

This fall, a different kind of coral reef will be on display in the National Museum of Natural History's Ocean Hall

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