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Like snails, clams, and even slugs, giant squids are all mollusks, with soft, fleshy bodies.
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Squid Relatives

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Sea anemones, brittle stars, and sea urchins make a home on mangrove roots.
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Mangrove Roots Up Close

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Photograph of a many-armed sea star with maroon and white feathery-looking arms, with a deep red sea fan in the background.
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Feather Star

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A tongue-like organ called the radula rams food down the giant squid's throat.
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Giant Squid Beak and Radula

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A red snapper hunts for prey on Kingman’s Reef, a healthy reef in the Line Islands.
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Kingman’s Reef, Line Islands

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Photograph from above of two right whales, one touching the tip of its mouth to the back of the other..
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Two North Atlantic Right Whales

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Dr. Mahmood Shivji uses DNA techniques to identify shark fins confiscated from fishermen
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FORENSIC FINS: Using DNA to Prosecute Shark Poachers

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Photograph of a green sea slug, with white polka-dot-like markings and white-edged ruffly structures along the length of its back.
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Lettuce Sea Slug

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Dr. Karen L. McKee collects a peat core in a mangrove forest in Belize.
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Dr. Karen L. McKee Studies Mangroves

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A mangrove tree crab clings to a leaf near a Smithsonian marine laboratory in Panama.
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Mangrove Tree Crab

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Hundreds of illustrated red crabs gathering on sand with Santa hats.
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Santa Claws is Coming to Town

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A photo of a solitary European green crab on a sandy substrate.
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European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

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