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Exhibits Explore Award-Winning Exhibits

Experience dozens of unique aquatic habitats—from a northern Australian river gorge to an Indo-Pacific reef to a tropical rain forest—all interconnected by the binding force of water.

Harbor Wetland®

Immerse yourself in a re-created salt marsh habitat like those that existed in Baltimore City hundreds of years ago.

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Upland Tropical Rain Forest

Australia: Wild Extremes

Blacktip Reef

Jellies Invasion

Shark Alley

Featured Animals Thousands of Animals. Hundreds of Species. One Aquarium.

Learn about animals from all over our blue planet—from the depths of the ocean to the canopy of the rain forest—and discover the connection they all share with water.

Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri)

Australian lungfish have a unique respiratory system different from other fish.

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Greenside Darter (Etheostoma blennioides)

Pig-Nosed Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)

Green-and-Gold Tanager (Tangara schrankii)

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