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“The southern elephant seal is a truly restrained behemoth. Males can grow to be five times larger than females, up to 5,000 pounds. This elephant seal may look fierce, but he was simply yawning over and over in the wave-wash. This allowed me to try mult
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Southern Elephant Seal, Gold Harbour, South Georgia

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dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

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Phoenix swimming with her calf.
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A Right Whale Named Phoenix

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A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

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A vaquita swims at the the water's surface.
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The Vanishing Vaquita

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Dolphins swimming among oily patches in the Gulf of Mexico
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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

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Phoenix’s entanglement badly injured her right lip, leaving a distinctive scar from that ordeal.
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Beware of Fishing Gear

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An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida
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Multispecies Communities of Seacows

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An artist sketches the preserved bones of a specimen in the Smithsonian's collection.
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Flippers, Jawbones, and Blowholes: Marine Specimens Inspire Artists

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

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A manatee swims in Crystal River, Florida.
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From Mermaids to Manatees: the Myth and the Reality

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