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Explore with German biologist Matthias Kopfmüller and his team to document one of the world's rich biodiversity in the waters off Indonesia

Can bubble curtains protect harbor porpoises from noise pollution?

Into the wild: Studying the behavior of great white sharks

Tracking scalloped hammerhead sharks for conservation

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Key People

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

American biologist

Timothy Parsons

Canadian biologist

Alexander Agassiz

Alexander Agassiz

Swiss scientist

Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb

German biologist

Karl August Möbius

German zoologist

Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Philip Henry Gosse

British naturalist

C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.

Sir C. Wyville Thomson

Scottish naturalist

Mary Jane Rathbun

American marine zoologist

Addison Emery Verrill

American zoologist

Charles Atwood Kofoid

American zoologist

Sir William Abbott Herdman

British oceanographer

Edmund Newton Harvey

American zoologist

Guillaume Rondelet

French naturalist

Quiz

greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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