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Measurements of carbon dioxide in atmosphere since 1958
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Keeling Curve

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Aegina, a type of jellyfish, swims through the water.
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A Stealthy Swimmer

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Radiolarian Shells
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

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With seven pairs of legs, nine eyes, and shells the shape of flying saucers, horseshoe crabs look like aliens from the deep.
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Horseshoe Crab from Thailand

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The People's Reef--Part of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
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The People's Reef

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Pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts in his finery.
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Captain Bartholomew Roberts

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Charles Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree appears in his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837).
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Darwin’s Evolutionary Tree Diagram

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Pirates capture the imagination of dreamers of all ages.
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Pirate reflection in mirror

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Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.
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Two New Sea Stars

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Phoenix is seen skim feeding off the coast of Maine in August 2004.
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Phoenix Feeding

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A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.
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Dispersant Deployed From The Air

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A handful of fossil pieces from the Cambrian period sit on a gray background.
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Scientists and Fossils

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