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Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank

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Walter Adey and Coral Reef Tank

November 2017

Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C

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Duria Antiquior – A More Ancient Dorset, 1830

March 2016

Corals Get Covered: The Gulf oil spill was different from many big oil spills in history because oil spewed from a well in the deep sea instead of leaking onto the ocean's surface. GoMRI scientists have found that oil remains in the deep to this day—and

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Corals Get Covered

February 2015

Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th

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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

January 2015

A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.

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A Rain Drop On An Oil Slick

January 2015

Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.

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Lichen Zones

September 2015

Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.

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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

February 2018

This young Gonatus squid is still translucent, making it tricky for predators to spot it.

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Deep Sea Squid

March 2016

This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria), a type of marine crustacean, is surrounded by her young inside the hollowed out barrel-shaped body cavity of a salp.

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Extreme Parenting

March 2016

Aegina citrea are stealth predators that push their tentacles ahead of their body or bell as they swim through the water.

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Ocean Lemon Drop

March 2016

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

March 2016

Cystisoma (a type of hyperiid crustacean) has one huge pair of eyes.

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Giant Eyes

March 2016