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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Caught on Video: Giant Squid

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What is coral? The answer is coral is an animal. This cutaway diagram of a coral polyp shows the location of its photosynthetic algae, or zooxanthellae, which coral needs to survive.
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What Is Coral? A Coral Polyp and Zooxanthellae

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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A Handful of Biodiversity

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Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Fossils Get a CT Scan

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An underwater photo of coral recovering from a bleaching event.
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Resilient Coral

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Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
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Orange Roughy and Bycatch

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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

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A plastic bag floats at sea.
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Plastic Bag Bans Work

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a light painted image of a red and white squid
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Light Painting of a Jellyfish

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A photo of zebra mussels clinging together, the mollusks have successfully invaded brackish and freshwater areas across North America.
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Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha)

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