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A many-armed, orange starfish.
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A Filter-Feeding Starfish

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Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

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A red Scypholanceola aestiva stares at the screen with large orange eyes.
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Scypholanceola aestiva

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A live coral polyp with turquoise tissue and brown tentacles closes its mouth (the slit at the center of the radiating ribs) tight.
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Closed-Mouth Coral

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Shown here are several deep-sea coral species: From left to right are an unidentified purple octocoral, a small gold acanthorgorgiid octocoral, and a large colony of pink Corallium secundum
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Diverse Deep-Sea Corals

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Black coral, primnoid coral, and feather stars flourish deep on the pristine Davidson Seamount.
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Diverse Deep-Sea Coral Community

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A big-bellied seahorse
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A Foot-Long Seahorse

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Light refracts off the comb-rows of this ctenophore.
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Comb Jelly Reflecting Colors

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A deep-sea octopod wraps itself around a submersible’s robotic arm in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Octopod on Submersible Arm

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The “Dumbo Octopod” swims by moving its fins, pulsing its webbed arms, or pushing water through its funnel for jet propulsion.
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Grimpoteuthis, The Dumbo Octopus

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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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Aeolid Nudibranch Defense

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A blue crab on the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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Coastal Blue Crab

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