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A yellow moray eel inside of a sea sponge in the waters off of Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand
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Moray Waits for a Meal

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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

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A wave curls near the shore.
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The Importance of a Wave

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The Brazilian Atlantic Islands site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2001. The rich waters of the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and Rocas Atoll are extremely important for the breeding and feeding of tuna, shark, turtle, and marine mammals. Th
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Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves

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Salps are tube-shaped, soft, transparent animals that swim through the ocean, straining out plant food as they go.
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Antarctic Salps

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An American crocodile rests on a bed of seagrass.
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American Crocodile

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Fish swim around the wreck of the HMT Bedfordshire, an Arctic fishing trawler that was converted into an anti-submarine warship during World War II, and sunk off the coast of North Carolina.
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Fish Swim Around Shipwreck

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A comic explaining the impacts of global warming
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Student Comic Winner: The Impact of Global Warming

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Tropical hatchetfish, like the one shown in this X-ray photograph, live in the dark depths of the ocean. Like many other deep-sea fishes, they have large eyes and bioluminescent spots on their bellies.
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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

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The long toothy rostrum or “saw," which gives the smalltooth sawfish its common name, is clearly seen in this X-ray image.
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X-Ray Image of a Smalltooth Sawfish

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A vaquita swims at the the water's surface.
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The Vanishing Vaquita

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A shortfin mako glides through the waters off the coast of California.
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Shortfin Mako Shark

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