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Megalodon from prehistoric times scene 3D illustration, though the ancient shark probably didn't look like this. (Warpaintcobra / Getty Images)

Megalodon even bigger than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Humpback anglerfish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons/Epipelagic)

Lost anglerfish adored by internet

Matthew Rozsa
School of Pacific Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera steindachneri, Cabo Pulmo Marine National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Scientists solve mystery of ray tails

Matthew Rozsa
14-year-old Nannalin "Fleur" Pornprasertsom surveying bleached corals during her coral conservation and citizen science course at Black Turtle Dive around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani on on June 14, 2024. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Coral reefs being pushed to extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Sea stars on ocean floor (Getty Images/Patrick J. Endres)

We’re protecting the ocean wrong

David Shiffman - The Revelator
Most of the seafloor explored during Dive 07 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration was covered with these manganese nodules, the subject of the Deep Sea Ventures pilot test nearly five decades ago. (Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.)

Mining deep sea despite unknowns

Gautama Mehta - Grist
Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium. (Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What exactly is aquaculture?

Frida Garza - Grist
DNA molecule and virus particles (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Viruses are doing mysterious things

Libusha Kelly - The Conversation
Aerial view of fishing boat in waters of Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway (Getty Images/Raffi Maghdessian/Aurora Photos)

Human activity is heating our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
A raft of sea otters (Enhydra nereis) congregates off the back deck of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in kelp. (Monterey Bay Aquarium / Tyson V. Rininger)

Sea otters help battle climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Diver and schooling Tomtates on WWII U-352 German submarine sunk in Atlantic ocean off coast of North Carolina. (Getty Images/Karen Doody/Stocktrek Images)

Shipwrecks teem with underwater life

Avery Paxton - The Conversation
A worker harvests salt from an evaporation pond at a salt factory on May 14, 2021 in Leizhou, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province of China. (Zhan Youbing/VCG via Getty Images)

Earth is getting too salty, experts warn

Matthew Rozsa
Artwork of the so-called ring of fire. This is a region of tectonic plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the missing tectonic plate

Rae Hodge
Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Greener oceans due to climate change

Troy Farah
Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano)

Plastic pollution is filtering into fish

Matthew Rozsa
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Historic UN treaty would protect oceans

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Fishing nets covered corals (Getty Images/Lea Lee)

The problem with ghost fishing gear

Hollie Stephens - FoodPrint
Earth melting (Getty Images/bestdesigns)

Record-high ocean temperatures in 2022

Matthew Rozsa
Lo’ak (Britain Dalton) in "Avatar: The Way Of Water." (Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios)

Can oceanic movies shift our land bias?

Ryan Poll
The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia (Getty/hypergurl)

Five new species of coral discovered

Jeremy Horowitz - The Conversation
Satellite view of the eye of a tropical storm, hurricane (Getty Images/Naeblys)

Hurricanes will devastate coastal cities

Tyler Winkler - The Conversation
Emperor Penguins in Antarctica (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The great threat emperor penguins face

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Using the oceans to fight climate change

Sonja Klinsky, Terre Satterfield - The Conversation
Big waves at the beach (Getty Images/PhotoNostalghia2020)

How did life emerge from nothing?

Troy Farah
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