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A bar underwater at a shipwreck site
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Bars of Slavery

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A puffin sits on a rock next to a puffin decoy.
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Puffin and Decoy

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Charley Potter, Marine Mammals Collection Manager, holding a dolphin skull at the Museum Support Center. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses a collection of hundreds of whale earwax plugs.
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Charley Potter

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Known as “viperfish”, these cryptic fish use their giant teeth to prey on other fish and can grow to be 2 feet long (24 inches).
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Midnight Hunter

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Tomopteris's bristles produce yellow bioluminescence, a unusual color among midwater animals, nearly all of which make some sort of light.
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Glow Worms

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Eugenie Clark collecting specimens on a dive.
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Eugenie Clark Diving

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Sand dollars (like those pictured in this set of illustrations) are flattened, burrowing sea urchins. Dead, sunlight-bleached specimens resemble silver coins, hence their common name. These figures portray a sand dollar’s lifecycle from larva to adult.
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Sea Urchins

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In this photo, the jellyfish Pandea rubra may have been surprised by a camera light or in a defensive state, causing it to contract its red mantle and reveal its complex muscle anatomy.
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Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish

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Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.
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Mucus Home

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Two overflowing trashcans
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Plastic Moves From Land to Ocean

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Fishing Disaster by Supratik Das
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Fishing Disaster

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Illustration of copepods from Ernst Haeckel.
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Copepods

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