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La Ciencia de Bob Esponja: Los Reales Personajes de Bob Esponja

¿Qué tan similares son estos personajes a sus homólogos del océano?
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La Ciencia de Bob Esponja: Salvando Nuestro Oceanó

¡Descubre lo que podemos hacer para defender a los animales del océano!
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Science of SpongeBob: Saving Our Ocean

Discover what we can do to defend ocean animals!
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Science of SpongeBob: SpongeBob Characters IRL

How similar are these iconic characters to their ocean counterparts?
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Science of SpongeBob: Scientific Names

How do scientists come up with those unique names?
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Sir Lady Java

History and Legacy of a Trans Rights Hero
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The Anglerfish Artist

Dwight Hwang, an expert at the traditional Japanese printing technique called gyotaku, was invited to the museum recently to perform a marriage of art and science
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At the Feet of Mammoths

Meet some of the Ice Age minifauna still making their home in L.A.
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