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The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

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This giant squid washed up on a beach in Norway around 1950.
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Giant Squid on Beach

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A female giant squid being prepared for display.
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Female Giant Squid

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Close-up photograph of an arrow squid embryo.
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Squid Embryo

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A view of the Pacific from Moorea, where scientists are working to catalog the life forms of the entire ecosystem.
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Marine Biology on the Island of Moorea

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The Japanese spider crab may be big but it is not invincible.
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Japanese Spider Crab

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A side-view of translucent hyperiid with a black background.
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Cystisoma

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 Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a specimen of a fan sponge (Phakellia sp.) collected at a deep-sea coral study site off the coast of South Carolina.    
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Fan Sponge

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What is coral? The answer is coral is an animal. This cutaway diagram of a coral polyp shows the location of its photosynthetic algae, or zooxanthellae, which coral needs to survive.
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What Is Coral? A Coral Polyp and Zooxanthellae

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Male fiddler crabs, like this one collected on Moorea, wave their enlarged claw as way of signaling to other crabs, especially during mating season.
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Fiddler Crab

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A tusk shell hermit crab peeks out of his shell.
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Tusk Shell Hermit Crab

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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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Sickly Starfish: A Q&A with Dr. Chris Mah

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