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Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Baby Sea Turtles in Jalisco, Mexico

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A couple inches wide and up to ten feet long, the bobbit worm stays hidden under tropical sands with just its five antennae poking out—waiting for prey to swim by.
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The Bobbit Worm

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Syllid fireworms can be found mainly on the seafloor, but they switch to a planktonic form to reproduce, where the females use bioluminescent signals.
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Syllid Fireworms

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The mauve stinger is a glowing jellyfish.
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Glowing Mauve

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The Japanese spider crab may be big but it is not invincible.
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Japanese Spider Crab

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A bloom of moon jellies.
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A Bloom of Moon Jellies

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A side-view of translucent hyperiid with a black background.
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Cystisoma

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This tentacle belongs to a blue button. While it has a central “float” with streaming tentacles like typical jellyfish, the blue button is a colony of many small hydroid animals.
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Blue Button Tentacle

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Blue Dragon nudibranchs are very common to the southeast coast of Australia and have a few color variations. Juveniles are white with blue rhinophores, and adults vary from dark purple to lavender to golden brown.
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Serpent Pteraeolidia

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A deep-sea octopus protecting her eggs
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Vigilant Octomom

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A photo of a sea walnut, a ctenophore.
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Sea Walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi)

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Midwater Squid, Abralia veranyi

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