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In non-pandemic times, the bar is packed for chantey night.
sailors

This Connecticut Inn Has Hosted Sea Chantey Singalongs for Half a Century

Landlubbers are very welcome.
Allison Hadley April 15, 2021
This artists' rendering illustrates the scientists' idea of how the ancient worms might have settled in to wait for prey.
science

Enter the Lair of an Enormous, Ancient, Predatory Worm

Trace fossils are useful paleontological allies—but they can't tell us everything.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 4, 2021
Orcas in the Pacific Northwest, such as this one off Vancouver Island, face numerous risks, including vessel strikes.
science

Orca Post-Mortems Tell the Story of a Population Facing Numerous Threats

The apex predators mean a great deal both ecologically and culturally.
Luna Shyr January 25, 2021
Two octopuses fight at Octopolis. The one on the left is about to jet away, fleeing.
animals

When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen

Observations from Octopolis and Octlantis.
Peter Godfrey-Smith December 14, 2020
Heron Island is a good place to look at (and smell) coral.
coral reefs

How Do Stressed-Out Corals Smell?

The answer could help researchers detect bleaching events before they happen.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 11, 2020
Stilt House No. 6 is known for its large American flag mural.
New Port Richey, Florida

Pasco County Stilt Houses

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.
Davenport Pier Beach
Davenport, California

Davenport Pier Beach

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
A Northern Common Cuscus in Indonesia's Gunung Mutis Nature Reserve.
animals

The Cute Critter Rewriting Our Understanding of Prehistory

Before cows and chickens, cuscuses may have been the original livestock.
Manvir Singh October 23, 2020
List

10 Wondrous, Waterless Whales

From massive, still-oozing skeletons to a behemoth made of thousands of pounds of recycled plastic.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 19, 2020
The Patsy Green was built around 1906. A married couple, Henry A. Wise Wood and Elizabeth Ogden, once paddled and sailed the canoe from New York City to Prince Edward Island, Canada.
ships

This Museum's Broom Closet Is Actually Full of Historic Boats

A room meant for mops and buckets is now the best-kept secret at Mystic Seaport Museum.
John Boudreau August 10, 2020
This aerial photograph shows the scale of sea ice environment where it meets the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere within this expanse of water, an umiaq must intercept a bowhead whale within 3 yards.
animals

As the Arctic Warms, the Iñupiat Adapt

"What choice do we have?"
Atlas Obscura August 6, 2020
The Sacramento Cannon Memorial
Gqeberha, South Africa

The Sacramento Cannon Monument

Artillery recovered from the sea floor marks the spot of an extraordinary shipwreck.
<em>E. kingii</em> never got huge, but it kept on growing.
science

The Cambrian Creatures That Grew Up Over the Course of 28 Bodies

Trilobites slipped out of one exoskeleton and built another, over and over and over again.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 30, 2020
Tharp working on an early map of the seafloor.
maps

The Woman Who Changed the Way We See the Seafloor

Marie Tharp's historic maps of underwater topography reimagined two-thirds of the Earth.
Suzanne OConnell July 30, 2020
The Neptune Bar before the party
List

Around the World in 8 Wondrously Uncrowded Beaches

Here, social distancing is all but guaranteed.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 14, 2020
Once the lights go on, colors emerge. Most of this bed of hard coral belongs to the genus <em>Leptoseris</em>, a group abundant in the deeper waters of Hawaiʻi, but observed here for the first time in the Coral Sea. The pink and reddish hues belong to photosynthetic algae pulling energy from the dim light.
coral reefs

Turning On the Lights in the Ocean's Twilight Zone

The surprising colors of Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park.
Luna Shyr July 7, 2020
Battery Point Light at high tide
Crescent City, California

Battery Point Light

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.
Captain Joshua Slocum Monument
Fairhaven, Massachusetts

Captain Joshua Slocum Monument

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.