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This 1936 blue whale specimen from the Gulf of Alaska (above: preserved in alcohol, below: CT scan) is part of a rare Smithsonian collection of whale fetuses that were collected in association with commercial whaling operations in the early to mid-20th cen
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Blue Whale Specimen

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Karen Romano Young's 19th AntarcticLog comic
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AntarcticLog 19

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Karen Romano Young's 18th #AntarcticLog
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AntarcticLog 18

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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

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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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Illustrations of radiolarians from Ernst Haeckel.
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Radiolarians

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Bundles of crystals form a woven pattern in parrotfish teeth.
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Crystal Orientation of Parrotfish Teeth

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A translucent pteropod swims freely in the open ocean with a black background.
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Shelled Pteropod

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Chuniphyes are siphonophores—colonial organisms in the same phylum as jellyfish, working together to survive.
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Ultimate Teamwork

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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

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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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Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.
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A Stealthy Swimmer

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