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A harp seal in icy water
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Harp Seal

Harp seals depend on seasonal ice during the breeding season. Their populations may...
A fur seal in kelp
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Fur Seal

 Warming climate, changing ocean chemistry, and overfishing threaten kelp forests...
A school of Atlantic bluefin tuna
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

 Endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna are caught in the wild and fattened in pens for...
A translucent pteropod swims freely in the open ocean with a black background.
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Shelled Pteropod

 Changes in ocean chemistry destroy the shelled pteropods that this “naked sea...
Phoenix Islands protected area
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Phoenix Islands

 Unlike most coral reefs, those of the Phoenix Islands are protected from pollution...
Whitemouth morays hide in the crevices of Indo-Pacific coral reefs with only their heads (and white mouths) emerging, mouths agape, to breathe and hunt crustaceans and fish.
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Eel, Embedded

 "A whitemouth moray eel emerges from the reef following a coral bloom in Honaunau...
Twin-spot snappers are curious top predators on Pacific coral reefs, eating a variety of fishes, shrimps, crabs, and snails among others, and are usually around 2.5 feet long.
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Curious Bohar

 The twin-spot snapper (Lutjanus bohar) is one of the more curious predators in the...
Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

 Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long,...
Despite its fearsome look, the Atlantic wolffish (or sea wolf) isn't a danger to humans, largely preying on whelks, crabs, and sea urchins.
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The Toothy Sea Wolf

 With gnarled teeth and a perpetual frown, the sea wolf is a creature out of our...
Jaw of the goblin shark
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The Goblin Shark

 The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is one of the creepier fish out there! It...