Starting Sunday, Sept. 1st, use code “HALF” when purchasing your admission tickets. General admission includes access to Mote Aquarium and its exhibits in the Ann and Alfred E. Goldstein Marine Mammal ...

Southern stingrays visit "cleaning stations" where bluehead wrasses and Spanish hogfish eat parasites and clean mucus from the ray's body. Females are usually larger than males, and can grow up to 6.5 ...

Mote Marine Laboratory is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks to diversify its work force. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color ...

After reaching maturity, manatees average 10 feet (three meters) in length and weigh between 800 to 1,200 pounds (360 to 540 kilograms). Originally born at the Miami Seaquarium, Buffett came to Mote ...

Whitetip reef sharks are typically a communal species, and are non-territorial. They can live in the same home range for several years. Whitetip reef sharks are a smaller shark species, usually ...

Peppermint shrimp are tiny, only reaching a size of 1.25 - 2.25 inches (3.175 - 5.715 centimeters). Peppermint shrimp are native to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. They are most commonly found ...

Green turtles grow to be three or four feet (0.91-1.22 meters) in length and weigh 300-350 pounds (136.1-158.8 kilograms). Hang tough is a blind green turtle that came to Mote’s Sea Turtle ...

Thousands of sea turtles nest (lay eggs) each year on southwest Florida beaches. Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium scientists study and tag these endangered and threatened species to help protect ...

Hear true stories of marine research! The “Two Sea Fans” podcast, which aired between January 5, 2017, and September 15, 2021, featured fun and educational conversations between Mote Marine Laboratory ...

We advance groundbreaking marine research worldwide, and we translate and transfer our discoveries to people of all ages—because everyone has a stake in the ocean's future. We are the ocean’s ...

Innovation and technology can unlock the oceans' most powerful secrets. At Mote, our innovators uncover new marine sources of medicine, novel methods to reduce the impacts of red tide and other ...

The blackfin tuna is a schooling species, and often form large, mixed schools with skipjack tuna. They are a popular recreationally fished species in Florida. Blackfin tuna are one of the smaller tuna ...