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A stingray swims in an Australian marine reserve.
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Australia's 1.2 Million Mile Marine Reserve

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a spotted dolphin swims through the ocean at night
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Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, Little Bahama Bank, The Bahamas

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Amanda Feuerstein with a nesting olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea). Feuerstein is a co-author of a study that surveyed algae, crustaceans, mollusks, and other epibionts that live on the turtles in the Pacific Ocean.
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Searching for Life -- Epibionts -- On Sea Turtles

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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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Aeolid Nudibranch Defense

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The Smithsonian Community Crochet Reef
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The Smithsonian Community Reef

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A brachiopod looks like a clam, but they aren't closely related.
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A Modern Day Brachiopod

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This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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Shrimp hides in the sargassum

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The Sundarbans site in Bangladesh, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997, includes one of the largest remaining areas of mangroves in the world and supports a rich animal community.
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Sundarbans, Bangladesh

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A female giant squid being prepared for display.
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Female Giant Squid

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By pumping enormous test tubes that are 60-feet deep and hold almost 15,000 gallons of water with carbon dioxide to make the water inside more acidic, researchers can study how zooplankton, phytoplankton and other small organisms will adapt in the wild.
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Studying Acidification in the Field

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A researcher holds a maritime archaic point made of ramah chert that was found at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada in 2011
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Ancient Maritime Archaic Indian Point

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the skull of a mosasaur
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A Mosasaur's Bite

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