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A translucent, female hyperiid surrounded by white young in a barrel-shaped body cavity.
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Phronima Female and Young

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Squalicorax shark fossil from the Smithsonian
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Squalicorax Shark Fossil

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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This small drone helped scientists to follow a trail of pink dye tracking ocean movement below the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Following the Dye by Drone

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Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

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Sea squire illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Squirts

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Starfish—marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata—are famous for their ability to shed limbs as a means of defense and then regenerate the sacrificed part.
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Haeckel Starfish

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A hawksbill sea turtle with a transmitter on its back.
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Satellite-Tagged Hawksbill Sea Turtle

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In 2005, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) observed a deep-sea squid species (Gonatus onyx) that keeps close watch over her eggs.
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Squid Watching Over Eggs

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Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug
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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

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Gulf Marsh Animals Bounce Back But Monitoring Continues: One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the spill, since oil spill impacts don't often happen immediately. One group of GoMRI researchers studied salt marsh anim
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Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

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Follow the Fingerprint: There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil seeps, small spills from ships, and oil from roads that washes into the sea—not to mention big oil spills like Deepwater Horizon. How do GoMRI res
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Layers of Weathered Oil

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