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Got five minutes? Dive into the world of marine biology and biodiversity through the Podcast of Life: witness science in action through lively, you-are-there stories from the front lines of ocean science. Brought to you by the Encyclopedia of Life, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Atlantic Public Media and with a consortium of marine education network partners.

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Our most recent episode on Marine Iguanas concluded the pilot season of our podcasts featuring marine species. We will be back next time with a new series - same idea, but we’ve changed the name...
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Marine Iguana

Amblyrhynchus cristatus

No iguana wants to be cooked alive on a hot rock and then served up as dinner for a Galapagos hawk. But it turns out the marine iguanas have a strategy that warns them of the presence of hawks...
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Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Can painted wooden fish on a schoolyard fence change human behavior and help clean up the ocean for the real salmon? Stream of Dreams in British Columbia thinks so, and a lot of wooden fish and...
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Mangroves

Rhizophora mangle

Follow researchers Candy Feller and Dennis Whigham as they scramble, climb, crawl, and creep through the tangled roots of a mangrove forest. Along the way, learn what’s threatening these unique...
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Riftia

Riftia pachyptila

Host Ari Daniel Shapiro dives deep to discover a white worm as tall as your refrigerator that breathes through bright red feathery “lips.” This isn’t a creature from outer space. Meet Riftia...
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Dinoflagellates

Dinoflagellate

Ari Daniel Shapiro is joined for this episode of The Podcast of Life by science contributor Josh Kurz, who tells the story of dinoflagellates through “music from the bottom of the food chain.”...
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Giant Squid

Architeuthis dux

How do you get two dead Giant Squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in Spain to a museum in Washington, DC, USA? Call in the Navy! Find out how Operation Calamari unfolded and how the...
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Coral

Acroporidae

Coral reefs are bustling cities of marine life, until rising ocean temperatures turn them into ghost towns. Can reefs spring back from devastating bleaching events? Ari Daniel Shapiro and...
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Thunnus thynnus

What is it like to be eyeball to eyeball with a fish the size of a Volkswagen? Learn about the process of tagging tuna and how those tags are revealing surprises that might help save tuna from...
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Polar Bear

Ursus maritimus

In this episode of the Podcast of Life, host Ari Daniel Shapiro relates two close calls with polar bears. Listen as Heather Cray recalls how, dumped by a storm on a small Arctic island without a...
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Box Jellies

Cubozoa

Learn how three fiery, painful stings during an early morning swim in Hawaii changed the life of researcher Angel Yanagihara. Once the young biochemist had recovered from her box jelly encounter,...
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Great White Shark

Carcharodon carcharias

In this episode of the Podcast of Life, students from Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in Massachusetts and La Salle Academy in Rhode Island question shark researcher Greg Skomal about this...
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Sea Cucumbers

Holothuroidea

What reef animal comes in a rainbow of crazy colors, can throw out its innards to immobilize predators, then creep away and regrow a brand-new stomach? It’s the sea cucumber, prized as a...
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North Atlantic Right Whale

Eubalaena glacialis

Hear how research unfolds at sea. Playing female whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself the center of attention of a group of male North Atlantic Right Whales....
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Digging Deeper

Watch for these icons next to listings for the Podcast of Life series, hosted by Ari Daniel Shapiro and produced by Atlantic Public Media.

Ari finds he can't always squeeze everything in to the five-minute podcast format, so in addition to archiving all of our marine-focused Podcasts, we will be featuring all kinds of extras: links to educational materials, audio out-takes, image galleries of species, scientists and listeners like you. Look for the icons and consider them an invitation to dig deeper

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