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Venomous Box Jelly from South Carolina
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Venomous Box Jellyfish from South Carolina

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A pair of sea butterflies float in the Arctic ocean.
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A Pair of Sea Butterflies

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Boats docked in a Chesapeake Bay harbor
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Chesapeake Bay Harbor

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Anemone shrimp in Puerto Galera, Philippines.
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Anemone Shrimp

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Image of deep-sea crustacean with black background.
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Vibilia

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A Pontoh pygmy seahorse
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How Many Seahorse Species?

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This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.
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Purple Sea Urchin

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Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

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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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Squid expert Dr. Clyde Roper examines specimens stored in jars in the Smithsonian collection.
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Dr. Clyde Roper

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Despite its demonic look, the vampire squid collects and eats drifting particles called "marine snow" using two long, sticky filaments.
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The Vampire Squid from Hell

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