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A Red Reaper Cuttlefish
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Reaper Cuttlefish

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A starfish eating a mussel.
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Starfish Feeding on Mussels

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Emperor shrimp, and two nudibranches at Dinah’s Beach, Papua New Guinea.
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Nudibranch With a Shrimp Partner

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Despite the cold and dark environment, soft-bodied animals like anemones abound under the ice in the Antarctic.
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Anemone in Cold Antarctic Water

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This is a series of images showing how a typical nightly courtship display would look like, where certain males initiate the display (2), others follow (3), and different species display their own unique “light shows” nearby (4 and 5).
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A typical nightly courtship display for P. annecohenae

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The loco (Concholepas concholepas, often called the Chilean abalone, although it isn’t actually an abalone) is found along the entire coast of Chile.
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The Loco of Chile

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Pearly nacre of a nautilus shell
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Osmena Pearl

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A cross-section of a nautilus shell is not only beautiful, it also is a great example of the chambered cephalopod shell. The projections splitting each chamber are the siphuncle tubes that allow gas and liquid to be transferred from chamber to chamber. 
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Chambered Shells

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Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus all have differently shaped pupils— an octopus has a rectangular pupil.
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Octopus Eyes

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A round sea potato with hair-like spikes laying flat against its body.
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Sea Potato

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A brown sea hare sits in shallow ocean water.
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Sea Hare in the Intertidal Zone

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Seagrasses don't just provide shelter for free-swimming animals, but also are a habitat for non-moving organisms, such as these sea anemones.
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Anemone on Seagrass Blade

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