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Rusticles on the HMS Titanic cover the hanging stern.
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Bacteria Live in the Titanic Wreck

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North Atlantic right whales were long hunted for their baleen—the fringed plates hanging in their mouths that they use to strain the seawater for food. Baleen was used in a number of consumer products, such as corsets.
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Whale Baleen from a Dead Whale

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Traditional fishing techniques now involve monofilament nets, with snorkelers diving down to ensure the bigger fish don't get away.
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Fishing with a Net

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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Smithsonian Marine Collections on Google Earth

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A school of blue-striped snapper gathers at Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection site in Panama.
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Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection, Panama

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map of the 13 marine protected areas in the United States, that comprise the National Marine Sanctuary system
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Marine Sanctuary Map

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The Cocos Island National Park site in Costa Rica was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. Cocos Island's position as the first point of contact with the northern equatorial counter-current and the myriad interactions between the island and the su
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Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica

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Polar bear siblings in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area near Hudson Bay spar playfully during migration.
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Help us pick the next OP stars

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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

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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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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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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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