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A sailing canoe sits in a Tahitian bay, surrounded by crowds of onlookers, and several smaller canoes full of people there to celebrate the occasion.
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Hōkūleʻa is welcomed in Tahiti in 1976

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an illustration of various squids and octopuses
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How Big are the Cephalopods?

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a juvenile swordfish next to an adult
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Growing up a Swordfish

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a man in a white hooded sweatshirt paddles in a skin boat kayak
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Kayaks Today

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a woman with short black hair and a long necklace of pearls sits in front of a microscope and holds a small button coral
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Dr. Joan Murrell Owens

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Hurting Nature is Hurting Us As Well by Yeon Soo Park
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Hurting Nature is Hurting Us As Well

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A view of McMurdo Station with a frozen Ross Sea in the background.
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McMurdo Station

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A healthy, deep sea octocoral and their brittle star partners
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Brittle stars and their best friends the octocorals

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Basking shark
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Basking Shark

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This is a series of images showing how a typical nightly courtship display would look like, where certain males initiate the display (2), others follow (3), and different species display their own unique “light shows” nearby (4 and 5).
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A typical nightly courtship display for P. annecohenae

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Duria Antiquior – A More Ancient Dorset, 1830

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Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.
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ROV Exploring the Deep Ocean

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