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Sharks are the ocean's top predators and play a major role in marine ecosystems. All week long, guests will get to learn ...
Penguins of all sorts are beloved birds, known for their quirky appearance and endearing waddle. Macaroni penguins are ...
Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...
During the Jaws era, the Carcharodon carcharias was known as the great white shark. Taxonomists had a problem with this ...
As Steven Spielberg’s classic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact its villainous 25-foot great ...
There are about 2,000 gigatonnes of carbon stored on land. In comparison, the ocean holds a massive 37,700 gigatonnes of carbon. That’s over 18 times more! Most of this carbon stays locked in the ...
That’s approximately 40 percent of all described marine animal species, ranging from worms to whales across all oceanic regions. You can view the database on GitHub.
The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species ...
The Earth’s oceans, comprising 71% of the planet’s surface, are divided into five main bodies: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, ...
In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...
NOAA Photo Library / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Halieutichthys aculeatus, or the pancake batfish, has an appearance that's almost as bizarre as its name. It's as flat as a pancake and lives on the ocean ...
Since 1996, NYMRC has given a second chance to over 3,900 marine animals, including 119 sea turtles, 762 seals, and 7 cetaceans, turning science and compassion into action.