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Sea star in a tide pool
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Tide Pools and Adaptations

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A surfer waits for the perfect wave.
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Surfer at Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA

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Anemone porcelain crabs can avoid predators by not only living in anemones but by willing loosing appendages to avoid infection.
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The Porcelain Crab

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The velvet crab's aggressive nature has earned it the nickname devil's crab.
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The Velvet Swimming Crab

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A wave curls near the shore.
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The Importance of a Wave

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This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

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The blue lined octopus can be deadly, so it is best to stay away.
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The Dangerous Blue Octopus

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Instead of creating sculptures like this one, volunteers with Debris Free Bonaire collect and throw out trash. As of May 2014, the group has removed more than 5,650 cubic feet of marine plastic from Bonaire's eastern coastline!
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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

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grains of sand collected from Orient Point, Long Island, NY
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Sand from Orient Point, Long Island, New York

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10 grains of star shaped sand collected from southern Japan
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Star Sand Grains Collected from Southern Japan

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
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The Great Hermit Crab Migration

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