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4:46

Noah R. Bressman and Douglas Fudge

The world's slimiest animal

Posted Jul 2022

5:00

Luka Seamus Wright

The wild sex lives of marine creatures

Posted Nov 2021

9:21

Enric Sala

A bold plan to protect 30 percent of the Earth's surface and ocean floor

Posted Nov 2021

14:03

Emma Marris

Are wild animals really "wild"?

Posted Jul 2021

5:00

Darien Satterfield

Real-life "Alien" jaws

Posted Jun 2021

5:28

Luka Seamus Wright

The sharks that hunt in forests

Posted Jun 2021

4:25

Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel

Could you survive the real Twilight Zone?

Posted May 2021

4:41

Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney

Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea

Posted May 2021

5:26

Noah R. Bressman

The fish that walk on land

Posted Aug 2020

4:45

Mike Gil

The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs

Posted Aug 2020

12:22

Marah J. Hardt

Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish?

Posted May 2020

13:05

Angelicque White

What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate

Posted Jan 2020

6:42

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

A coral reef love story

Posted Oct 2019

11:49

Alasdair Harris

How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution

Posted Oct 2019

12:21

Melissa Marquez

What sharks taught me about being a scientist

Posted Jul 2019

9:28

Ethan Mann

How sharks could inspire a new generation of medical devices

Posted Jul 2019

14:09

Paul Cater Deaton

Are our cultural narratives killing sharks?

Posted Jul 2019

17:27

Ocean Ramsey

Why the world needs sharks

Posted Jul 2019

4:15

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis

Underwater farms vs. climate change

Posted Jun 2019

15:27

Steve Simpson

How ocean noise destroys marine ecosystems

Posted Jun 2019

4:22

Claire Simeone

The lovable (and lethal) sea lion

Posted May 2019

17:54

Guy Harvey

Painting sharks ... for science

Posted May 2019

12:41

Sebastien de Halleux

How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean

Posted Nov 2018

12:13

David Lang

Let's protect the oceans like national parks

Posted Oct 2018

4:07

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

Will the ocean ever run out of fish?

Posted Sep 2018

5:41

Prosanta Chakrabarty

Four billion years of evolution in six minutes

Posted Jun 2018

12:52

Enric Sala

Por qué necesitamos proteger el alta mar

Posted Jun 2018

13:05

Enric Sala

Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve

Posted Jun 2018

4:43

Mike Gil

Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs?

Posted Jan 2018

6:05

Lauren Sallan

How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction

Posted Oct 2017

10:51

Radhika Nagpal

What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish

Posted Sep 2017

4:49

Prosanta Chakrabarty

Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish

Posted Jun 2016

5:51

Nathan S. Jacobs

How do schools of fish swim in harmony?

Posted Apr 2016

10:10

Thomas Peschak

Dive into an ocean photographer's world

Posted Feb 2016

15:18

Mike Velings

The case for fish farming

Posted Feb 2016

13:54

David Gruber

Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures

Posted Jan 2016