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 ...

Underwater and outdoor enthusiasts, ecotravelers and families are encouraged to celebrate the marine environment at Mote’s Ocean Fest: A Community Celebration. Proceeds and donations from the festival ...

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 ...

These urchins are harvested for their roe, their reproductive material. The roe is called Uni in Japanese and is served in sushi restaurants. Red sea urchins tend to live in rocky areas, often in ...

These fish give birth to live babies, rather than laying eggs. They are "viviparous." This fish has vibrant golden-brown bars and stripes on its silver body, with irregular blue stripes on and near ...

Convict blennies secrete mucus from their eyes that they use to cling onto hard surfaces, preventing them from being carried away by ocean currents. Throughout the western central Pacific Ocean, ...

Gold-spotted rabbitfish are able to blend into coral habitats almost seamlessly with their unique coloring and dotted pattern. Gold-spotted rabbitfish have pale blue bodies covered in tiny orange dots ...

The blueface angelfish has only been spotted in Florida waters once, off of the coast of Fort Lauderdale in 2006. In the greater Indo-West Pacific Ocean, blueface angelfish live in lagoons, channels, ...

This species can swim to a maximum depth of 492 feet (150 meters). Bluestripe snappers have yellow bodies, white bellies and four pale blue stripes running horizontally from their face to the base of ...

Every January, Mote hosts its Science Lecture Series featuring Mote scientists who share their world-class research on Monday evenings.

Start your day with our sharks before the Aquarium opens to the public. You and your chums will have a great time sinking your teeth into a light continental breakfast while you learn about our ...

Using its polyp tentacles, finger coral catch and eat smaller marine organisms that drift by. They also have a special algae—called zooxanthellae– in their tissues that photosynthesize the sun's rays ...