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A beautiful bromeliad blooms among the mud and roots of a mangrove swamp.
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Dancing Bulb

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Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible
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Inside the Submarine

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Red and white riftia worms living in a deep-sea vent.
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Riftia Worms: One Species at a Time

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Photograph of a translucent red-orange comb jelly against a black sea.
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Red Mid-Water Comb Jelly

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Pelicans gather at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Pelicans Perch on Oil Booms

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A blue cod and sea pens, a unique type of cnidarian, speckle the seafloor in New Zealand's Fiordland region.
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Blue Cod Amongst Sea Pens

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Auster and colleagues direct a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dive on the New England Seamounts.
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Scientists Conduct an ROV Dive

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Image of a rapa whelk, a large marine snail retreated into its shell
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Rapa Whelk

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Shown here are several deep-sea coral species: From left to right are an unidentified purple octocoral, a small gold acanthorgorgiid octocoral, and a large colony of pink Corallium secundum
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Diverse Deep-Sea Corals

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Photo of sockeye salmon spawning.
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Sockeye Salmon, Adams River, British Columbia, Canada

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Red coral necklaces in a display window. Harvesting deep-sea coral to produce jewelry like this threatens these ecosystems.
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Coral for Sale

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A marine biologist measures the temperature of an ice core.
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Measuring Ice Core Temperatures

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