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an adult and baby coelacanth specimens on display

Meet the Coelacanth

Learn about the fish that was once thought to be extinct.

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Un pescador de una pesquería a pequeña escala de Honduras se embarca en una excursión de pesca.

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Medidas Inteligentes Rastrea las Presiones de Pesca

A blue parrotfish hides among coral.

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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.

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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.

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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot

A school of akule (Hawaiian for bigeye scad) explode into a camera's frame.

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Following the Akule

Are You An Educator?

At Smithsonian Ocean, we have lesson plans, activities, and resources to help you engage your students in the wonders of our oceans.

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X-ray image of a winghead shark

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X-Rays of Fish Reveal Diversity

Overfishing is leading to an abundance of less desirable species like jellyfish.

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Peanut Butter and Jellyfish

Three fishermen sit on wooden stilts that are sticking out of the ocean as they fish.

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Fishing for Food Security: Small-Scale Fisheries Are Key

Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.

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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.

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Bioluminescence

A red deep-sea fish specimen.

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The Whalefish Mystery

Map showing the range of the eastern and western populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna and their spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

Screenshot of "Sea Creatures from the Deep" video showing the teeth of an anglerfish.

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Sea Creatures from the Deep: A Video by National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life

Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.

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Helpful Herbivores

A polar bear and its cub in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

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Celebrating Marine Moms

On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.

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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

a heart in a petri dish

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Dispatches from the Gulf: Centers of Innovation