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Black coral, primnoid coral, and feather stars flourish deep on the pristine Davidson Seamount.
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Diverse Deep-Sea Coral Community

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This black coral is more than 4,200 years old. Named for the color of their skeletons, black corals come in many colors.
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How old is black coral?

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The robotic arm of the Jason, a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), collects several stalks of black coral from the seafloor.
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ROV Collects Black Corals

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Light refracts off the comb-rows of this ctenophore.
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Comb Jelly Reflecting Colors

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Scientist Kevin Raskoff documents organisms by building an aquarium.
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Photographing Captured Animals

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A marine biologist measures the temperature of an ice core.
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Measuring Ice Core Temperatures

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Breaching

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NOAA’s New Millennium Observatory was set up to study geologic, chemical, and biologic interactions along the mid-ocean ridge system. Here, a remotely operated vehicle (ROPOS) recovers a volcano monitor in the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific, west of Oregon.
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Studying the Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Like snails, clams, and even slugs, giant squids are all mollusks, with soft, fleshy bodies.
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Squid Relatives

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These bleached corals in the Gulf of Mexico are the result of increased water temperatures.
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Bleached Corals

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A stingray swims in an Australian marine reserve.
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Australia's 1.2 Million Mile Marine Reserve

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How Many Nights of Hanukkah? A harp has its own place in holiday music, but we also think this sponge looks like a super-sized menorah! This newly-discovered carnivorous sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) was found using robotic submersibles operated by the
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Harp Sponge

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