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John Paxton, a scientist who studies marine life, looks into a microscope
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Sleuth at Sea

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a loggerhead Sea Turtle
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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A Bryde's whale catches a meal
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Bryde's Whale

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Lionfish on the on the Thistlegorm wreck in the Red Sea, Egypt.
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Lionfish in a Whirl

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A many-armed, orange starfish.
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A Filter-Feeding Starfish

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Diagram showing gills on a crab absorbing nutrients
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Crab Gills Absorb Nutrients

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Dr. Maya Yamato and colleague John Ososky dissect the head of a deceased stranded fin whale in the Chesapeake Bay to examine soft tissue associated with the ears. In 2015, Yamato’s team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural H
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Learning From A Stranded Fin Whale

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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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Dr. J. Murray Roberts photographed these living polyps from the Mingulay Reef Complex off Scotland in aquaria in 2010.
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Lophelia Pertusa Coral Polyps

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The Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory’s Pisces V submersible is lowered for a dive to study deep-sea corals.
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Submersible Launch

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Great White Sharks are powerful swimmers, capable of going 50 kph/35 mph.
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Built for Speed

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Blackbeard may have been the most notorious pirate of all. Fierce and ferocious-looking, he stood 6’4” tall and had wild eyes and an explosive temper. To add to the effect, he tucked slow-burning cannon fuses under his hat.
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Portrait of Blackbeard

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