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Underwater and outdoor enthusiasts, ecotravelers and families are encouraged to celebrate the marine environment at Mote’s Ocean Fest: A Community Celebration. Proceeds and donations from the festival ...

Mote offers a variety of internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Please visit the pages below for additional details and the application process for each program. Students may apply to ...

These urchins may decorate themselves with algae and shell bits for protection. The sea otter is one of the main natural predators that eats sea urchins. Because sea otters are endangered, urchins ...

Adults of this species can live up to 23 years. Grass rockfish usually live in shallow waters where they can hide among hard structures and kelp beds. They have been found from Southern Canada to ...

At night, spot prawns swim to more shallow depths to eat and mate before returning to deeper depths for the day. Females of this species are typically larger in size. They can grow up to 10.5 inches ...

Yellow rock shrimp can swim up to 230 feet (70 meters) deep. Yellow rock crabs have strong claws for crushing their shelled prey. They eat a variety of crustaceans and bivalves like oysters and ...

Males in this species will stay with their eggs and guard them from predators. In the Indo-west Pacific, azure damselfish can be found in lagoons, coastal reefs and near branching coral species. Azure ...

These corals often extend their tentacles at night to catch prey and retract them during the day to protect themselves. Using their polyps, green birdsnest corals catch organic compounds and small ...

These corals often extend their tentacles at night to catch prey and retract them during the day to protect themselves. Using their polyps, branching frogspawn corals filter organic compounds and ...

This species of fish is hermaphroditic, meaning they can experience a sex change in their lifetime. When there is a a need for more males, females can switch. Sunrise dottybacks have yellow faces and ...