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A crab with blue coloration
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Toxic!

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A crab with numerous
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Decorator Crab

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A Pholas dactylus clam illustration.
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The Borer of Holes

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Arctic Tern on the Inner Farne Island.
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Arctic Tern

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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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Spotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
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The Cat-Like Eyes of a Catshark

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Pink dye was released by CARTHE researchers on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and its movement tracked using underwater sensors, two small drones, a helicopter and a kite.
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How Does Seawater Move?

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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

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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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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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Methane-eating bacteria (also called methanotrophs) helped clean up the Gulf oil spill, such as Methylococcus capsulatus shown here.
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Oil Spill Methanotroph

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A brown-colored deep-sea coral sits on the deep ocean floor and is covered with brown oil floc.
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Anemone On Deep Sea Coral

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