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Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift awa
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Eat Your Methane Wheaties

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Drifters, Dye, and Drones: How can you follow 3.19 million barrels of spilled oil? Researchers with GoMRI's CARTHE project have set out drifters—big and small—that relay their GPS locations every five minutes. These data can help scientists understand
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Drifters, Dye, and Drones

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Methane-eating bacteria (also called methanotrophs) helped clean up the Gulf oil spill, such as Methylococcus capsulatus shown here.
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Oil Spill Methanotroph

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A brown-colored deep-sea coral sits on the deep ocean floor and is covered with brown oil floc.
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Anemone On Deep Sea Coral

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Ghost shark swimming
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Ghost Shark

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An underwater photo of sharks
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Blacktip Sharks by Enric Sala

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Tuna in a warehouse waiting to be sold at market.
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Tuna at Tsukiji Fish Market

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The crew aboard Oceana’s research vessel Ranger were surprised to discover large colonies of deep-sea white coral in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
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Deep Coral Sighted in Mediterranean

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Hundreds to thousands of tiny crustaceans live on each right whale, eating algae that settles on their skin.
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Whale Lice

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Members of the Tlingit Nation celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall.
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Celebrating in Washington

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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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Home is where the hull is: Since the dawn of seafaring, humankind has had to deal with pesky creatures, such as barnacles, that “foul” ship hulls and boat propellers like this one.
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Boat Propeller Fouled With Barnacles

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