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a large room of shelves filled with jars
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The Worm Collection

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This male giant squid is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Male Giant Squid

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Seahorses make noise! Seahorses make noises that can be heard underwater similar to the sound of smacking your lips. They make them during feeding and courtship.
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Seahorses Make A Racket

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a crab next to a coral den
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Crabs Make Coral Castles

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A starfish eating a mussel.
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Starfish Feeding on Mussels

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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Parasitic Worms in a Fish

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A purple, white and black spotted cleaner shrimp sits on an anemone.
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The Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

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A cuttlefish eye
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Dazzling Eyes

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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 crown-of-thorns starfish in the Marianas Islands.
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Mystery Photo: Prickly Puzzler on the Reef

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Like snails, clams, and even slugs, giant squids are all mollusks, with soft, fleshy bodies.
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Squid Relatives

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This deep-sea coral specimen shows the bands that help marine scientists learn how ocean conditions changed over time.
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Deep-Sea Coral Bands

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