Skip to main content
Smithsonian Institution
Language Search Smithsonian Ocean
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Flickr Follow us on Tumbr
Donate

Smithsonian Ocean

Main Menu

  • Ocean Life
    • Marine Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Reptiles
    • Seabirds
    • Fish
    • Invertebrates
    • Plankton
    • Plants & Algae
    • Microbes
  • Ecosystems
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deep Sea
    • Coasts & Shallow Water
    • Poles
    • Census of Marine Life
  • Planet Ocean
    • Tides & Currents
    • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis
    • The Seafloor
    • Temperature & Chemistry
  • Through Time
    • Ancient Seas
    • Extinctions
    • Evolution
    • The Anthropocene
  • Conservation
    • Fishing
    • Pollution
    • Habitat Destruction
    • Invasive Species
    • Acidification
    • Climate Change
    • Gulf Oil Spill
    • Solutions & Success Stories
    • Get Involved
  • Human Connections
    • Books, Film & The Arts
    • Recreation
    • Seafood
    • Exploration
    • History & Cultures
    • Careers
  • At The Museum
  • Educators
Menu
Search

Search

Showing results for "All"
Filter

Content type

  • Photo (26)
  • Slideshow (5)
  • Article (4)
  • Video (3)
  • Overview (2)

Article Type

  • Personal Perspectives (3)

Topics

  • Acidification (1)
  • Ancient Seas (7)
  • Animal Behavior (5)
  • At The Museum (8)
  • Beaches (6)
  • Books, Film & The Arts (5)
  • Census of Marine Life (3)
  • Climate Change (9)
  • Coasts & Shallow Water (15)
  • Conservation (3)
  • Coral Reefs (18)
  • Deep Sea (19)
  • Evolution (18)
  • Exploration (7)
  • Extinctions (1)
  • Extinctions (4)
  • Fish (37)
  • Fishing (23)
  • Food Web (4)
  • Genetics (1)
  • Get Involved (3)
  • Gulf Oil Spill (1)
  • Habitat Destruction (4)
  • History & Cultures (2)
  • Human Connections (4)
  • Ice (3)
  • Images to Hide (1)
  • Invasive Species (4)
  • Mangroves (12)
  • Marine Mammals (9)
  • Microbes (3)
  • Ocean Life (5)
  • Plankton (3)
  • Plants & Algae (11)
  • Poles (9)
  • Pollution (14)
  • Recreation (1)
  • Reptiles (1)
  • Seabirds (5)
  • Seafood (14)
  • Sharks & Rays (9)
  • Shifting Baselines (1)
  • Solutions & Success Stories (41)
  • Technology (7)
  • Temperature & Chemistry (2)
  • The Anthropocene (2)
  • The Seafloor (2)
  • Vents & Volcanoes (3)
  • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis (1)
  • (-) Invertebrates (40)

Tags

  • Albatross (2)
  • Algae (6)
  • Anatomy (17)
  • Ancient sea life (2)
  • Antarctic (7)
  • Arctic (24)
  • Art (6)
  • Beaches (7)
  • Bioluminescence (23)
  • Brian Skerry (6)
  • Camouflage (15)
  • Citizens of the Sea (3)
  • Climate Change (4)
  • Competition (5)
  • Coral bleaching (7)
  • Corals (55)
  • Crabs, Shrimp & Relatives (53)
  • Deep-sea corals (7)
  • Deepwater Horizon (8)
  • Defenses (25)
  • DNA barcoding (2)
  • Encyclopedia of Life (9)
  • Endangered species (3)
  • Feeding (26)
  • Fisheries (10)
  • Fossils (2)
  • Geology (2)
  • Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (8)
  • Intelligence (3)
  • Jellyfish, Anemones & Relatives (48)
  • Larvae (3)
  • Maritime history (6)
  • Medicine (8)
  • Migration (5)
  • Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (42)
  • National Museum of Natural History (20)
  • New discoveries (17)
  • News (2)
  • NOAA (27)
  • Oil spills (9)
  • Open ocean (7)
  • Paleobiology (4)
  • Photography (18)
  • Predation (16)
  • Reproduction (31)
  • Research vessels (11)
  • Restoring Habitats (2)
  • ROVs (8)
  • Runoff (2)
  • Scientific illustrations (14)
  • Scientists at work (24)
  • Scuba diving (3)
  • Seagrass (3)
  • Seamounts (7)
  • Sea stars & Urchins (12)
  • Sea turtles (6)
  • Seaweed (10)
  • Senses (14)
  • Smithsonian collections (15)
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (2)
  • Smithsonian exhibits (2)
  • Smithsonian Marine Station at Ft. Pierce (2)
  • Smithsonian scientists (58)
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (5)
  • Snails & Slugs (8)
  • Sponges (15)
  • Squids & Octopuses (69)
  • Symbiosis (5)
  • Technology (9)
  • Under the microscope (26)
  • Vents & Volcanoes (6)
  • Whales (11)
  • Women in Science (2)
  • Worms (10)
  • Zooplankton (13)
  • (-) Adaptations (30)
  • (-) Aquaculture (2)
  • (-) Seahorses (8)
  • Sort By Relevance
  • A-Z
  • Z-A
  • Newest
  • Oldest
A screenshot from the video with oyster farmers in water.
video

Farming Oysters Despite Acidic Seas

Bill Taylor, Paul Taylor, Diani Taylor and Brittany Taylor have more in common than...
Wed, 09/13/2017 - 09:59
an upside down scuba diver
video

Building Good Mussels

A new wave of farming has come to the ocean. It’s called aquaculture. And it’s...
Mon, 09/21/2015 - 09:47
Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
overview

Giant Squid

Giant squid live up to their name: the largest giant squid ever recorded by...
April 2018
A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
overview

Bioluminescence

You may have seen the sparkle of fireflies on a summer’s night. The fireflies...
April 2018
Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.
slideshow

Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery

Bioluminescence is one of the more captivating adaptations that have evolved in...
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 16:24
This aptly named fish has two long fangs.
slideshow

Creepy Critters: Marine Life Surfaces for Halloween

Claws, spines, spikes, tentacles, and fangs. Aliens, monsters, and ghostly...
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 13:56
This new species of lobster (Dinochelus ausubeli) is blind and has bizarre claws. It was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep in the Philippine Sea by a Census of Marine Life expedition.
slideshow

Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

Deep sea animals have to live in a very cold, dark, and high-pressure environment...
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 15:08
Small red hyperiid.
slideshow

The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:47
Bubbles of methane gas rise through a mussel bed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo

Methane Bubbles Up From Seep

Methane gas, trapped deep within the Earth's crust, can slowly leak from cracks in...
A smasher mantis shrimp came out from its burrow on fringing reef adjacent to US Liberty ship wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 6 meters.
Photo

Smasher Mantis Shrimp

A smasher mantis shrimp came out from its burrow on a fringing reef adjacent to the...
Up close look at thin tentacles of a jellyfish.
Photo

Jellyfish Tentacles Close Up

Stinging cells (nematocysts) line the tentacles of this moon jelly (Aurelia...
A Pontoh pygmy seahorse
Photo

How Many Seahorse Species?

There are 47 different species of seahorses and 14 of those were discovered in the...

Pagination

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Next page Next
  • Last page Last

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Ocean
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Flickr Follow us on Tumbr
Contact Us

Explore

  • Ocean Life
  • Ecosystems
  • Planet Ocean
  • Through Time
  • Conservation
  • Human Connections
  • At The Museum
  • About
  • Media Archive
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Donate
  • Ocean Life
    • Marine Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Reptiles
    • Seabirds
    • Fish
    • Invertebrates
    • Plankton
    • Plants & Algae
    • Microbes
  • Ecosystems
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deep Sea
    • Coasts & Shallow Water
    • Poles
    • Census of Marine Life
  • Planet Ocean
    • Tides & Currents
    • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis
    • The Seafloor
    • Temperature & Chemistry
  • Through Time
    • Ancient Seas
    • Extinctions
    • Evolution
    • The Anthropocene
  • Conservation
    • Fishing
    • Pollution
    • Habitat Destruction
    • Invasive Species
    • Acidification
    • Climate Change
    • Gulf Oil Spill
    • Solutions & Success Stories
    • Get Involved
  • Human Connections
    • Books, Film & The Arts
    • Recreation
    • Seafood
    • Exploration
    • History & Cultures
    • Careers
  • At The Museum
  • Educators

Search Smithsonian Ocean