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a man in a white hooded sweatshirt paddles in a skin boat kayak
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Kayaks Today

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a fringed fossil feather star
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Ancient Crinoid

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Map of seasonal area restrictions for ships in Northeast U.S.
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Seasonal Management of Right Whales

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Hurting Nature is Hurting Us As Well by Yeon Soo Park
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Hurting Nature is Hurting Us As Well

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Oceanic white tip shark near Cat Island, Bahamas.
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The Most Dangerous of All Sharks

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Radiolarian Shells
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

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Hatchetfish photographed moments after being pulled from the deep sea in the Oozeki net trawl. These small, silvery fish have large eyes to collect any sunlight that reaches the deep sea. Even in the deep, they are not immune to human impacts; the research
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Hatchetfish

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Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, deep-sea corals were colonized by hydroids and their branches began to break off. 
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Floc On Gulf Coral

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Model of a lion’s mane jellyfish on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This jellyfish, a member of the phylum Cnidaria, can have tentacles up to 190 feet long (58 meters) and a bell almost 7 feet (2 meters) in diameter.
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Lion's Mane Jellyfish in Sant Ocean Hall

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A prickly dogfish swims in blue water near the ocean's bottom.
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Prickly Dogfish

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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Parasitic Worms in a Fish

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Bignose Fish, a mysterious deep sea creature
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Bignose Fish

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