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Seahorses are hitchhikers. They can travel long distances across the ocean—farther than they can swim—by attaching themselves to floating seaweed and debris.
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Hitchhiking Seahorses

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A bright yellow long-snouted seahorse.
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A Cold-Water Seahorse

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Stephanocyathus (A.) spiniger, a solitary, deep-water stony coral species, has six long spines that slow it from sinking into soft substrates.
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Solitary Deep-water Corals

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This day octopus (Octopus cyanea) has shaped itself like seagrass or some coral so hide from predators or stalk prey.
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Camouflaged Octopus Blends In

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A healthy and vibrant coral reef in Papua New Guinea.
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A Healthy Coral Reef

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A common dolphin with calf jump through the ocean.
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Common Dolphin and Calf

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A pod of Baird's beaked whales in the eastern North Pacific.
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Baird's Beaked Whales

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The eel-like Atlantic hagfish being measured out of water.
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Pacific Hagfish

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Brian Skerry in a room with all his photography equipment cases.
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Brian Skerry's Photography Gear

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Photographer Brian Skerry walks knee deep in a mangrove in the Bahamas.
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On the Hunt for a Perfect Photo in the Mangroves

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Researchers tagging a giant leatherback sea turtle.
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Tagging a Leatherback Sea Turtle

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Two bright orange anemonefish poke their heads between anemone tentacles.
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Clownfish in their Host Anemone

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