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A red deep-sea fish specimen.
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A Fish that Looks Like a Whale

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This may look like a mane of hair, but it’s actually baleen from a North Atlantic right whale.
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Baleen Close Up

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a skin boat model with oars
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The Umiaq

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The deepest point on earth is the Mariana Trench.
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Mariana Trench

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A thresher shark uses its unusual tail fin for swimming and hunting.
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The Thrashing Thresher Shark

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Tomopteris's bristles produce yellow bioluminescence, a unusual color among midwater animals, nearly all of which make some sort of light.
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Glow Worms

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Map of sites participating in Ocean Sampling Day 2014.
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Ocean Sampling Day Sites

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This tentacle belongs to a blue button. While it has a central “float” with streaming tentacles like typical jellyfish, the blue button is a colony of many small hydroid animals.
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Blue Button Tentacle

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Blue Dragon nudibranchs are very common to the southeast coast of Australia and have a few color variations. Juveniles are white with blue rhinophores, and adults vary from dark purple to lavender to golden brown.
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Serpent Pteraeolidia

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The excavation site of an Inuit home in Hare Harbor, Quebec, Canada
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Excavation of an Inuit House

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“The southern elephant seal is a truly restrained behemoth. Males can grow to be five times larger than females, up to 5,000 pounds. This elephant seal may look fierce, but he was simply yawning over and over in the wave-wash. This allowed me to try mult
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Southern Elephant Seal, Gold Harbour, South Georgia

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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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