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A shining jingle shell on the sand.
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Jingle Shells

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Two candy cane shrimp
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Candy Cane Shrimp

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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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No glue and glitter needed here! The pinecone fish (Monocentris japonicus) looks like the real thing on land—covered in large scales with a dark trim. They are found lurking in caves and under ledges in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, and are a po
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Pinecone Fish

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An elephant seal with round scars from a cookie-cutter shark lays on the beach.
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Cookie-cutter Shark

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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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The fringe of a white Christmas tree worm.
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White Christmas Tree Worm

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The mandarinfish lives in western Pacific tropical coral reef ecosystems and lacks the scales that are typically seen on bony fish.
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Mandarinfish Duo

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The toothy goby or common ghost goby (Pleurosicya mossambica) has a commensal relationship with soft corals and sponges in the Indo-Pacific ocean.
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Toothy Goby in Coral

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Seahorses are the only fish species that can hold your hand! Unlike most fish that use their tails for swimming, seahorses, such as this big-belly seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis), use their monkey-like tails to hold onto objects in their environment, li
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Seahorses Have Monkey-Like Tails

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A Pontoh pygmy seahorse
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How Many Seahorse Species?

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