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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.

Death Adder (Acanthophis praelongus)

Lures its prey using the tip of its tail as bait.

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Cardinal Tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi)

Mouth Almighty (Glossamia aprion)

Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)

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