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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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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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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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The Island of Moorea

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Students in marine life costumes pose in an aquarium.
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Mystic Aquarium Delegation

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A juvenile swimming crab sits on a bed of sargassum seaweed.
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Adult Swimming Crab

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Winner of the ‘best camoflauge’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica is betrayed only by motion.
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Seaslug Camouflages in Seaweed

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Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.
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Brown Grass Shrimp

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Marine biologist Gerald Kooyman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has documented climate-induced changes to emperor penguin habitats and impacts on how the penguins feed, breed, and raise their young.
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Emperor Penguins

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A close-up photo of Killer Algae, Caulerpa taxifolia, a seaweed that has proven to be a successful invasive species.
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Killer Algae (Caulerpa taxifolia)

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The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

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Venomous Box Jelly from South Carolina
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Venomous Box Jellyfish from South Carolina

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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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