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Mote Marine Laboratory (and Aquarium) is a not-for-profit research and educational institution with an aquarium open to the public 365 days a year.

Founded by Dr. Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark

Dr. Eugenie Clark,...
 in 1955 in Cape Haze, Florida (and originally known as Cape Haze Marine Laboratory until its renaming in honor of William R. Mote, his wife Lenore and his sister, Betty Mote Rose, major benefactors of the Laboratory) the early years of the laboratory specialized in shark
Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full Cartilage skeleton and a highly Streamlines, streaklines and pathlinesd body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits....
 research.






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Mote Marine Laboratory (and Aquarium) is a not-for-profit research and educational institution with an aquarium open to the public 365 days a year.

Founded by Dr. Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark

Dr. Eugenie Clark,...
 in 1955 in Cape Haze, Florida (and originally known as Cape Haze Marine Laboratory until its renaming in honor of William R. Mote, his wife Lenore and his sister, Betty Mote Rose, major benefactors of the Laboratory) the early years of the laboratory specialized in shark
Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full Cartilage skeleton and a highly Streamlines, streaklines and pathlinesd body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits....
 research. Since 1978, the laboratory has been based in Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County, Florida on the Southwest Florida coast of the state of Florida in the United States. Its current official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico....
. In 2006, the laboratory employed more than 250 full time workers, ranging from marine scientists to the caretakers of exhibits at the aquarium which opened in 1980 on City Island in Sarasota Bay
Sarasota Bay

Sarasota Bay is an estuary located off the west coast of Florida in the United States.The bay and its surrounding area appeared on the earliest maps of the area, being named Zarazote on one dating from the early 1700s....
. Mote has extensive volunteer and intern programs in various departments. There is also a summer camp program for youth that teaches them about the ocean.

Mote specializes in marine life research, education, aquaculture and marine mammal and sea turtle rescue and rehabilitation. Mote Marine also has an aquarium, displaying mostly native Floridian marine life from a variety of environments. There is also the body of a giant squid
Giant squid

The giant squid is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species. Giant squid can grow to a Deep-sea gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at for females and for males from Fish anatomy to the tip of the two long tentacles ....
 (named "Molly Mollusk") on display, one of the few bodies of giant squids ever found intact. The animal rescue facility specializes in rescuing marine life, mainly manatee
Manatee

Manatees are large, fully aquatic marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The name manat? comes from the Ta?no, a pre-Columbian people of the Caribbean, meaning "breast"....
s, whale
Whale

Whales are marine mammals of order Cetacea which are neither dolphinsmembers, in other words, of the families Oceanic dolphin or River dolphinnor porpoises....
s, sea turtle
Sea turtle

Sea turtles are turtles found in all the world's oceans except the Arctic Ocean. There are seven living species of sea turtles: Flatback Sea Turtle, Green Sea Turtle, Hawksbill turtle, Kemp's Ridley, leatherback sea turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turtle and Olive Ridley Sea Turtle....
s, and dolphin
Dolphin

File:Bottlenose_Dolphin_KSC04pd0178.jpgDolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genus....
s. Mote's researchers also study broader environmental patterns, including the conditions underlying red tide
Red tide

"Red tide" is a common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column....
 blooms in Florida's offshore and estuarine waters.

Since 1978 the Laboratory has expanded to include a campus in Sarasota, with field stations and public exhibits in Key West
Key West

Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys.Key West is politically within the limits of the city of Key West, Florida, Monroe County, Florida, Florida, United States....
 and field stations in Summerland Key
Summerland Key

Summerland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 20 miles east of Key West.U.S. Route 1 in Florida crosses the island at approximately mile markers 24--25.5, between Ramrod Key and Cudjoe Key....
 and Charlotte Harbor. Florida's extensive coastline and marine and estuarine environments have enabled Mote scientists to build a platform of marine research conducted in the nearshore environment.

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