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Ocean Features & Field Notes
By Marijke Puts
The stuff that didn’t fit into client commissions—because shockingly, not everyone has room for a thousand words on shrimp ecology.
Feature stories and underwater adventures that bring the ocean to life.
Commission a pieceOcean Features
The Polka-Dotted Hero of the Reef: How Coral Crabs Defend Their Homes
Humans messed up the reef. Now a coral-eating starfish is taking over. Is all lost? Not if the Trapezioidea can help it, it’s not. Sometimes good things really do come in small packages.
Marijke Puts
Light Pieces, Ocean Features
Blind Faith: The Reef’s BFFs are a Goby and a Gunslinging Shrimp
Life on the reef is no picnic. These underwater jungles give life to countless fish and invertebrates, but danger lurks in every nook and …
Marijke Puts
Ocean Features
The Sun Coral and the Oil Platform: How Tubastraea Conquered the World
On a coral that doesn’t need light to thrive, and how it conquered the seas half a world away from its place of origin—but not without a little help from Big Industry.
Marijke Puts