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Powerful suckers stud the club at the end of the giant squid’s long feeding tentacle.
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Giant Squid Feeding Tentacle

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

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Workers prepare to hoist the model of Phoenix, a North Atlantic Right Whale, into position above the exhibit hall floor in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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Preparing to Hoist the Right Whale Model

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A giant squid attacks a boat in a painting.
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Giant Squid Myth

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Ellen Strong, Research Zoologist - Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Research Zoologist Ellen Strong

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The National Museum of Natural History's Department of Invertebrate Zoology has developed an online map that provides information about invertebrates in the National Collection from areas impacted by the oil spill.
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Google map of invertebrates in oil spill region

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Cooks Bay in Moorea is one of the places that researchers are scouring in their quest to collect one of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Cooks Bay, Moorea

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“This shark was cruising low along the reef known as Alcyone. Her left eye was glancing up toward other hammerheads when I took this shot from below.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Alan Studley.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Nikon D300; Tokin
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Ocean Views from Nature's Best Photos

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Harbor seal in a kelp forest near Cortes Bank, near San Diego California.
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Underwater Photography Contest from University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School

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The 2012 Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center dive class stand in a group together
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Scientific Diving Students from the 2012 IBRC Program

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This map shows the localities represented by the Gulf of Mexico collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Map of Gulf of Mexico Collection

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The Curasub departs for a deep sea dive, up to 1,000 feet off the island of Curaçao, where this sub is located.
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Curasub Sets Off

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