marine biologist

noun

: a scientist who studies life in the sea

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Any kind of hard material attracts fauna in water, says Andrey Vedenin, a marine biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany, who was not involved in the Mallows Bay study but co-authored a separate new paper that detailed wildlife thriving on war detritus in the Baltic Sea. Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025 Formerly a marine biologist, Jon Ecker traded the sea for a career in acting. Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025 The encounter was filmed by Hugo Lassauce, a marine biologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and documented in a research paper published in the Journal of Ethology on Thursday. Jack Guy, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025 Based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name, follows a small beach town terrorized by a massive great white shark, leading local Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) a marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter Quint (Craig Kingsbury) to team up and track it down. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marine biologist

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“Marine biologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marine%20biologist. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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