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Diagram showing gills on a crab absorbing nutrients
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Crab Gills Absorb Nutrients

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Photo of coral polyp, with a single bleach polyp.
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Corals Threatened by Acid Seas

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Up close look at thin tentacles of a jellyfish.
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Jellyfish Tentacles Close Up

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Bottom trawl treasures from the shallow Chukchi Seafloor
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Bucket of Creatures from an Arctic Shelf

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This jewel squid (Histioteuthis bonnellii) lives above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Jewel Squid

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A Smithsonian specimen helped identify a new family of deep sea squid with long spindly legs.
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Bigfin Squid

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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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Hundreds to thousands of tiny crustaceans live on each right whale, eating algae that settles on their skin.
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Whale Lice

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A tongue-like organ called the radula rams food down the giant squid's throat.
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Giant Squid Beak and Radula

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Turbinolia stephensoni
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Smallest Coral Species

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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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A translucent, female hyperiid surrounded by white young in a barrel-shaped body cavity.
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Phronima Female and Young

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