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A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.
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A Rain Drop On An Oil Slick

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Illustration of colorful nudibranchs from Ernst Haeckel.
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Nudibranchs

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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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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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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Siphonophores

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An estimated 5 tons of plastic are fed to albatross chicks each year at Midway Atoll.
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What We’re Reading 11/14

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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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Tiny jellies in a petri dish.
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Fishing for Plastic: Photos from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
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A Seashore Walk

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