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Up close look at thin tentacles of a jellyfish.
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Jellyfish Tentacles Close Up

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Flame shells live in enormous colonies, but hidden in nests.
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Orange-Tentacled Flame Shell

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The white, black and yellow patterns of this eel look like snowflakes.
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Snowflake Moray Eel

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The robotic glider Scarlet Knight
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Robotic Glider and Barnacles

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Walruses use sea ice as platforms on which to nurse their young and launch their dives.
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Walrus Rests on Ice

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Sea Turtle
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Green Sea Turtle

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Illustration of the extinct ammonite, related to the modern squid.
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Ammonite

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Dr. Stephen Cairns, a Smithsonian research zoologist, studies deep-water corals.
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Dr. Stephen Cairns

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A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing gear floats at the surface in the Bay of Fundy.
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Wounded North Atlantic Right Whale

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Only 2,000 individuals of the endangered short-tailed albatross remain after the species was hunted for its feathers in the 1940s.
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Short-tailed Albatross

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This female hyperiid (Phronima sedentaria), a type of marine crustacean, is surrounded by her young inside the hollowed out barrel-shaped body cavity of a salp.
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Extreme Parenting

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A net used to trawl the ocean floor scooped up this large specimen of deep-sea coral.
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Coral Trapped in Trawler Net

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