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“The largest land migration of any animal on Earth, as many as 120 million crabs carpet the island in red as they move from the rain forest to the coast.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Stephen Belcher.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS-1D
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Red Crab Migration, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

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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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Find out how you get two Giant Squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in Spain to a museum Washington, DC.
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Giant Squid: One Species at a Time

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A veined octopus sits inside a vacant bivalve shell, which it uses as a portable shelter, in the Philippines. This is one of the few examples—if not the only example—of tool use in invertebrates.
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Veined Octopus at Anilao Batangas Pier, Philippines

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Hermit crabs, like this one collected in Moorea, usually protect their soft, vulnerable abdomens from predators by reusing empty snail shells. This specimen shows the crab without its customary borrowed shelter.
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Hermit Crab Without a Shell

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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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A photo of zebra mussels clinging together, the mollusks have successfully invaded brackish and freshwater areas across North America.
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Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha)

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Bright bubblegum coral sits on a brown, hard substrate.
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Optimism in the Deep Sea - Connecting Corals, Museums, and Ocean Managers

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A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
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You Light Up My World!

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A blue shark, with a copepod attached to its dorsal fin, coasts through waters near New England.
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Blue Shark

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Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
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Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

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A sea sponge underwater
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Sea Sponges: Pharmacies of the Sea

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