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Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.
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Tiny, but Deadly

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Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift awa
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Eat Your Methane Wheaties

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A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.
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Antarctic Log 2.1

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax

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

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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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Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug
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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

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

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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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