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Charley Potter, Marine Mammals Collection Manager, holding a dolphin skull at the Museum Support Center. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses a collection of hundreds of whale earwax plugs.
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Charley Potter

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A red snapper from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Red Snapper

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Arrecife de Coral Saludable

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A healthy, thriving coral reef in the Caribbean Sea.
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A Healthy Mesoamerican Reef

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The Mesoamerican Reef extends over 600 miles (1000 km) through the waters of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras and includes the Western Hemisphere’s longest barrier reef.
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Mesoamerican Reef Regional Map

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A Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), a species with a normal range in the North Atlantic, interacting with the native Brandt’s cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) sighted on the Farallon Islands, located off the coast of San Francisco, California in t
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Northern Gannet in the Pacific

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A fisherman stands on the ocean's edge holding a striped bass.
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Fisherman with Striped Bass

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A side-view of two skeleton shrimp.
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Skeleton Shrimp

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A sea spider walks on the ocean floor.
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Sea Spider

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Rhinochimaera swimming in the Dark.
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Rhinochimera

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As a semi-enclosed sea, the Mediterranean is very sensitive to pollution.
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The Mediterranean Sea from Space

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The loco (Concholepas concholepas, often called the Chilean abalone, although it isn’t actually an abalone) is found along the entire coast of Chile.
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The Loco of Chile

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