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Carved flipper bones made of wood.

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Carved Wooden Flippers

November 2017

Blue mussels use byssus threads (which you can see on the right, in front of the barnacle shell) to attach to rocks and sometimes to stop a predator from making them a meal.

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Byssus Threads on a Blue Mussel

July 2015

"Pirate fishing vessel converted to a home in Lembeh Strait off North Sulawesi, Indonesia," wrote Claire Fackler of her winning image.

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Converted Pirate Fishing Vessel

May 2015

Chelsea Rochman dissects a dorado caught by the crew to see if it had eaten plastic. Nearly 10 percent of all fish collected on the expedition had plastic in their systems.

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Dorado Dissection

April 2015

Trash Detective and microbial ecologist Peter Davison and crew haul in the Oozeki net, used to collect fish and other organisms living between 650 and 2,600 feet, at sunrise. Operations aboard the SEAPLEX cruise happened 24 hours a day around the clock.

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Oozeki Net

April 2015

Trash Detective and marine ecologist Chelsea Rochman cruises through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, net in hand, scooping up plastic, fouling communities and more.

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Trash Detectives at Work

April 2015

A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.

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Antarctic Log 2.2

March 2018

Karen Romano Young's 18th #AntarcticLog

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AntarcticLog 18

February 2018

Karen Romano Young's 3rd AntarcticLog

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AntarcticLog 3

February 2018

Tiny jellies in a petri dish.

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Velella velella Jellies

December 2017

A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.

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Bleached Coral On Mesoamerican Reef

December 2015

An opah at the Honolulu Fish Auction with a printed label attached that includes an ID number, bar code, the date, the receiver's ID number, the cart number, species name, vessel name, and weight of the fish.

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Opah With a Story

September 2015