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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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A Starfish Wasting Away

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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Prints from Ernst Haeckel

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Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

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Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a squat lobster (Eumunida picta) collected at the Lophelia reefs off Cape Lookout, North Carolina.    
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Squat Lobster from Reefs of North Carolina

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A robotic arm on the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible retrieves Galatheid crabs for research. In the background is a species of the deep-sea coral Lophelia.
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Collecting Deep-Sea Crabs

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Two thorny seahorses sit back to back underwater.
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Seahorse Lovebirds

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This small sea star, little more than an inch across, is orange on top and whitish underneath.
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Little Sea Star

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Photograph of a transparent comb jelly against a dark sea.
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Bioluminescent Comb Jelly

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This new species of squid (Magnapinna sp.) was discovered in 1954 in the stomach of a lancetfish.
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Bigfin Squid Specimen

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A species of sea cucumber from the Arctic discovered by Census of Marine Life researchers.
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Arctic Sea Cucumber

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Image of two white sea shells with spirals.
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Sanibel Island Shells: One Species at a Time

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

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