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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

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Auster and colleagues direct a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dive on the New England Seamounts.
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Scientists Conduct an ROV Dive

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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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The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary encompasses several state parks and wildlife refuges.
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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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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J. Murray Roberts studies and maps the cold-water corals known as Lophelia in the North Atlantic.
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J. Murray Roberts, Coral Scientist

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A diver clears the bottom of a cargo ship of specimens.
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Unearthing Information About Invasives From the Bottom of a Cargo Ship

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Steller's sea eagles, a threatened species, gather on sea ice at the Shiretoko Peninsula in Japan.
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Shiretoko, Japan

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Jorge Velez-Juarbe, predoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Jorge Velez-Juarbe

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Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
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Solidifying the Dolphin Family Tree

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A tree that shows the different relationships between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
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Marine Microbe Tree of Life

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The Sian Ka'an site in Mexico was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1987. The site's name means "Origin of the Sky" in Mayan and contains tropical forests, mangroves, and marshes, as well as a large marine area intersected by the Caribbean Barrier Re
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Sian Ka'an, Mexico

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