Rehabilitation
Cape Cod is a stranding hotspot. Hundreds of marine animals strand alive and in need of medical care every year. The National Marine Life Center is meeting that need. Our core mission is to rehabilitate and release stranded marine mammals and sea turtles. We believe that through rehabilitation, we can help individual animals, learn more about marine animal species and wildlife disease, and share...
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Science
Living the majority of their lives in the deep ocean, marine animals are challenging for humans to see and study. The animals undergoing rehabilitation at the National Marine Life Center offer a unique opportunity to learn more about their species, about wildlife health, and ultimately about the health of our oceans. Current research includes investigations of marine animal parasites and case studies of...
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Education
Marine animals make ideal teaching tools. Dolphins, whales, seals, and sea turtles are charismatic and interesting. The ocean depths in which they live are mysterious and exciting. By using marine animals as subject material, National Marine Life Center instructors address topics from biology to physics, writing composition to art, math to technology. Marine animals also make ideal subjects for lessons on...
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Most Recent Articles
Marine Mammal Parasite of the Month- Answer August 2019
This is my friend Acanthocheilonema spirocauda, a filarial parasite. It is commonly found in harbor seals but can also be found in hooded seals, ringed seals and harp seals. It is not yet a huge threat to seal...
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Marine Mammal Parasite of the Month- August 2019
The second worm of this 2019 parasite blog series is another one of my favorites, one that I have researched a fair amount. This is a parasite that has an undetermined life cycle and primarily affects yearling...
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Patient Update: August 18th, 2019
Weanling season is here! Weanling seals no longer need their mom and are...
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Patient Update: August 12th, 2019
TURTLE RELEASE!! Our last three Kemp’s Ridleys from the sea turtle...
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Patient Update: August 4th, 2019
Seals Pup season is well under way! Remember, it is illegal to be within...
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Marine Mammal Parasite of the Month- Answer July 2019
This parasite is Otostrongylus circumlitis, one of my favorite lungworms....
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This parasite is not necessarily tricky; it is in fact very common. Not only...
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Where in the World is Harbor Seal Jones? / Patient Update July 19th
Patient Update 7/19/19 Welcome back to the National Marine Life Center’s...
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Seal Release/Patient Update June 15th
Patient Update 6/15/19 Welcome back to the National Marine Life Center’s...
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TEACHER WORKSHOP: Go Under the Sea with STEM
Join us for this One-Week Institute for Middle and High School...
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Patient Update May 13th
Patient Update: 5/13/19 Welcome back to the National Marine Life...
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Summer Day Program: Discover Marine Life !
Back by popular demand – “Discover Marine Life,” the...
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It’s a Seaside Sunset Soiree!
Sunset over the ocean. The golden glow creates a path to mysteries beyond....
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Mermaid Ball 2019 Venue Announced
Announcing…. The new venue for the 2019 Mermaid Ball is the Sea Crest...
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Learning science…. You can help inspire youth!
Do you remember first learning about science? What was your experience like?...
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Thriving in the wild… You can help advance science!
Otitis media. You may know it as an ear infection from which your child...
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Cold-stunned and entangled…. you can help #73!
It was a brisk, sunny November day when Number 73 stranded on Cape Cod, barely...
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Spectacle of Trees – Win a Tree and $14.5K Worth of Gifts!
“Shining Stars and Sparkling Seas,” there’s something for...
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New Volunteer Orientation: December 1st, 2018
The National Marine Life Center functions with a great deal of support from our...
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Order your NMLC 2019 Calendars!!!!
The National Marine Life centers beautifully designed calendars are full of...
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The National Marine Life Center is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) marine animal hospital and science and education center. We rehabilitate and release stranded marine mammals and sea turtles in order to advance science and education in marine wildlife health and conservation.
