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This photo provides a small glimpse of the amazing variety of whale skulls and skeletons available for study at the Smithsonian.
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Whale Collections

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North Atlantic right whales and ocean-going vessels often cross paths.
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Ship and North Atlantic Right Whale

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Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.
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Brown Pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill

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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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A Starfish Wasting Away

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Eating Whale Bone

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A scientists examines a sponge specimen collected in the Caribbean.
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Cancer-Fighting Sponges?

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Photo of Sylvia Earle
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Dr. Sylvia Earle

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
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Reef Monitoring Structure

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The 2012 Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center dive class stand in a group together
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Scientific Diving Students from the 2012 IBRC Program

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Three dancers dependent on one another, as in the food web.
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The Food Web, Through Dance

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A hermit crab looks out from its coral dwelling in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
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Coral Hermit Crab

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A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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Coral Spawning by Moonlight

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