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A photo of a cave basslet.
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Cave Basslet

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Dr. Valerie Paul, director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Fla., examines tropical seaweeds on northwestern Guam’s coral reefs.
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Diving in Guam

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Sargassum forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift.
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Floating Sargassum Seaweed

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The right whale Phoenix, and her calf, swimming off the coast of Florida.
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Phoenix and Her Calf Sighted in February 2012

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Vertebrates evolved in the sea and eventually moved onto land. The ancestors of whales later returned to the sea.
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Whales Returned to the Sea

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The fringed baleen plates are easy to observe as this North Atlantic right whale skims the water’s surface while it feeds.
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Baleen in Action

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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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An Ancient Whale Skeleton, Unexcavated

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These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.
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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

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A map of NOAA's 13 marine protected areas
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National Marine Sanctuaries Map

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a yellowtail snapper is hooked by a fisherman
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Hooked

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Twin-spot snappers are curious top predators on Pacific coral reefs, eating a variety of fishes, shrimps, crabs, and snails among others, and are usually around 2.5 feet long.
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Curious Bohar

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A teacher and a young boy paint a fish mold to create a Gyotaku style print
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Gyotaku Fish Prints

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