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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

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Unlike the other six species of marine turtle, the Australian flatback (Natator depressus) has a very limited distribution, found only from northern Australia to Papua New Guinea/Indonesia and it only breeds in Australia. Flatback turtles tend to spend mos
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Flatback Sea Turtle

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Striped eel catfish are the only species of catfish found in coral reefs.
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Striped Eel Catfish

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Atmospheric carbon is captured by coastal mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes at a rate five times faster than tropical forests.
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Blue Carbon

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The head of a turtle-headed sea snake.
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A Turtle or a Sea Snake?

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Two sea lions interact amongst schools of small fish.
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Seal or Sea Lion?

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This rare staurozoan, or stalked jellyfish, Haliclystus californiensis, is about 2 centimeters in length and was collected off the coast of California.
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Staurozoan: The Stalked Jellyfish

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Flame shells live in enormous colonies, but hidden in nests.
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Orange-Tentacled Flame Shell

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How Many Nights of Hanukkah? A harp has its own place in holiday music, but we also think this sponge looks like a super-sized menorah! This newly-discovered carnivorous sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) was found using robotic submersibles operated by the
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Harp Sponge

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A small, transparent, shell-less sea snail in the open ocean.
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A Chorus of Sea Angels

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The white, black and yellow patterns of this eel look like snowflakes.
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Snowflake Moray Eel

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A big-bellied seahorse
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A Foot-Long Seahorse

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