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Porcelain crab on anemone at Pescador Island, Cebu, Philippines.
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Porcelain Crab and Anemone

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Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
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Rudist Clams

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a round ball of a sea urchin nestled between rocks
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Toxic Nature of Flower Urchins

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Emperor shrimp, and two nudibranches at Dinah’s Beach, Papua New Guinea.
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Nudibranch With a Shrimp Partner

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This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals

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Ghost crabs are often seen scuttling quickly along beaches, and can be difficult to photograph in the wild. They are common in Moorea where this specimen was collected.
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Ghost Crab Close Up

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Anemone shrimp in Puerto Galera, Philippines.
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Anemone Shrimp

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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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The black sea nettle jellyfish can grow to twenty-five feet long.
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The Black Sea Nettle

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Scientists discovered this 1.5-m (5-ft) tall yellow bamboo coral in 2007 off the coast of Hawaii in 1,459 m (4,787 ft) of water.
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New Bamboo Coral Discovery

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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 rendering of an underwater marine scene depicting life ~145-65 million years ago, when rudist clams were the major reef builders.
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Long Before Coral, Mollusks Built the Ocean's Reefs

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