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July 6, 2025, was our final day of general-admission ticket sales at Mote Aquarium on City Island, Sarasota. Now, our Aquarium team is focused on preparing for the opening of Mote Science Education ...

Situated in the heart of the Lower Keys and only 24 miles from Key West, Mote Marine Laboratory’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration (IC2R3) is a fully equipped ...

Your support allows us to lead groundbreaking marine science, conservation and ocean animal rescue and rehabilitation. Members help us save the ocean every day. The least we can do is open our doors ...

The oceans are our passion. Marine science is our mission. As an independent, nonprofit institution with 38 programs and centers in our global research enterprise, Mote champions conservation and the ...

Mote Science Education Aquarium (Mote SEA) at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, is now open! Please reserve tickets in advance online to guarantee entry. Purchase a membership to visit year ...

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 ...

This fish species can swim up to 98 feet (30 meters) deep. Barred thicklip wrasses filter feed for their food by taking in sand and eating any invertebrates or marine debris they may catch. After they ...

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 ...

The black tegula can carry other mollusks as "hitchhikers!" For example, a type of limpet rides on the black tegula's shell and eats the microscopic algae growing there. These snails can be found from ...

Florida crayfish can grow up to 2.76 inches (7 centimeters) long. These freshwater crayfish can be found along both of Florida's coasts and coastal California in ephemeral pools, ditches, lakes and ...

Peninsula newts can grow up to 4.88 inches (12.4 centimeters) long. In Florida's peninsula, these newts can be found in small bodies of freshwater like ponds, ditches, marshes and lakes. Peninsula ...