Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art

Microscopic photos of sand show that it's a lot more than just little tan rocks.

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Ghost Sharks Grow Retractable Teeth Out of Their Forehead – Not to Eat, But to Mate

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New Species Identified On Antarctic Seafloor that was Once Covered By a Massive Ice Sheet

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Shark Teeth May Start to Decay as Ocean Water Becomes Increasingly Acidic

In the course of evolution, the pygmy seahorse has adapted its appearance almost perfectly to the coral on which it lives.

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Pygmy Seahorses Lost Their Long Snout, And It’s Kept Them Alive For 18 Million Years

Deep sea worm fights ‘poison with poison’ to survive high arsenic and sulfide levels

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This Worm’s Golden Color Is Toxic, But Is Necessary to Survive in the Deep Sea

shearwater seabird flying over the ocean

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Swooping and Pooping: These Seabirds Only Defecate in Mid-Air and it’s Helping the Ocean

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DNA Differences in Great White Sharks Have Instigated an Unsolved Mystery

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This Cholera-Related Bacterium Is Melting Sea Stars, Causing a Marine Epidemic

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Sinkites Are Strange Bodies of Sand Beneath the Sea, and They’re Breaking the Laws of Geology

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Meet the Record-Breaking Deep Sea Snail That Lives 6,000 Meters Below the Surface

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Toxic Algae in Whale Poop Warns of Warming Seas in the Alaskan Arctic

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Spiky, Star-Shaped Creatures Show the Deep Sea Is a "Connected Superhighway"

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Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art

Microscopic photos of sand show that it's a lot more than just little tan rocks.

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The Great Barrier Reef Experiences Largest Annual Decline in Nearly 40 Years

At Almost 500 Feet Below the Water, Experts Heard the Sounds of the Elusive Beaked Whale

This Adorable Bumpy Snailfish Is One of Three New Species Discovered in the Deep-Sea

Ghost Sharks Grow Retractable Teeth Out of Their Forehead – Not to Eat, But to Mate

New Species Identified On Antarctic Seafloor that was Once Covered By a Massive Ice Sheet

Shark Teeth May Start to Decay as Ocean Water Becomes Increasingly Acidic

Pygmy Seahorses Lost Their Long Snout, And It’s Kept Them Alive For 18 Million Years

This Worm’s Golden Color Is Toxic, But Is Necessary to Survive in the Deep Sea

Swooping and Pooping: These Seabirds Only Defecate in Mid-Air and it’s Helping the Ocean

DNA Differences in Great White Sharks Have Instigated an Unsolved Mystery

This Cholera-Related Bacterium Is Melting Sea Stars, Causing a Marine Epidemic

Sinkites Are Strange Bodies of Sand Beneath the Sea, and They’re Breaking the Laws of Geology

Meet the Record-Breaking Deep Sea Snail That Lives 6,000 Meters Below the Surface

Toxic Algae in Whale Poop Warns of Warming Seas in the Alaskan Arctic

Spiky, Star-Shaped Creatures Show the Deep Sea Is a "Connected Superhighway"

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