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  1. Marine Mammals - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Nov 6, 2025 · Marine mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates that bear live young and nourish them with milk as land mammals do, but that spend most or all of their lives in the ocean.

  2. 5 surprising symbiotic relationships in the ocean

    May 24, 2024 · How certain marine species keep each other safe, fed, and healthy through symbiotic relationships in the ocean

  3. Ocean Topic: Biological Carbon Pump

    Nov 15, 2024 · What is the biological carbon pump? When sunlight hits the ocean’s surface waters, it stimulates tiny marine plants called phytoplankton to photosynthesize. This process removes carbon …

  4. How do marine animals hear? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Sound travels faster and farther in water than air, helping marine animals like whales, corals, and crabs navigate, communicate, and survive by detecting and responding to underwater acoustic signals.

  5. A new tagging method for fragile marine species – Woods Hole ...

    Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors (BIMS) can be attached to marine animals in less than 20 seconds. Traditional tagging methods could take up to ten minutes, causing stress to animals, …

  6. Carbon Dioxide, Shell Building, and Ocean Acidification

    All these ions are in seawater surrounding shell-building marine life. Carbon dioxide (CO 2) dissolves in the ocean and reacts with water to form carbonic acid—which in turn generates bicarbonate, …

  7. Ocean Life - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Jan 12, 2026 · Marine Mammals Marine mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates that bear live young and nourish them with milk as land mammals do, but that spend most or all of their lives in the ocean.

  8. Seal Facts - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Jun 13, 2024 · Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate families—phocidae, otaridae, and odobenidae—that are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land.

  9. Five marine animals that call shipwrecks home

    Jan 23, 2025 · When it comes to the relationship between humans and marine life, it can be far easier to see ourselves as passive beneficiaries of the ocean rather than active members of this ecosystem. …

  10. How Is Fukushima’s Fallout Affecting Marine Life?

    May 2, 2013 · How much radioactivity gets into marine life depends on a host of factors: How long the organisms are exposed to radioactivity is certainly important, but so too are the sizes and species of …