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A photo of an arid ocean cliff in Chile's Atacama Desert with the ocean below.
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert

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Lenticulina secans-- this “benthic” foram lives on the seafloor. This specimen was collected from southeastern Tanzania.
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Lenticulina secans

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a graphic depicting several different anglerfish of various sizes and colors
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The Anglerfish Relatives

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Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.
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Tiny, but Deadly

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Two young women with seafood on a tarp
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Indonesia Fish Market

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a crab next to a coral den
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Crabs Make Coral Castles

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This sea cucumber, collected at 830 feet, hosts a pearl fish, which lives in its anus!
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Sea Cucumber in Curaçao

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A marine biologist measures the temperature of an ice core.
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Measuring Ice Core Temperatures

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Colorful corals are disappearing in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Coral at the Great Barrier Reef

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Two nautiluses in the open ocean off the coast of Palau.
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A Couple of Nautiluses

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

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