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A piece of vertebrae from a gray whale specimen is held by hands over a piece of bubble wrap.
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Gray Whale Specimen Prep

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A woman scuba diving near an ARMS
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Nancy Knowlton retrieving ARMS

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a female scientist with orange glasses holds a preserved fish
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Adela Roa-Varon

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a young mother in colorful hiking attire sits on a bench with her young daughter
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Adela and her Daughter

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a cartoon man stands with a jar of specimens
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Career Spotlight- Pete Girguis

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Macaroni penguins preen on rocks.
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Macaroni Penguins Preening

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Charley Potter, Marine Mammals Collection Manager, holding a dolphin skull at the Museum Support Center. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses a collection of hundreds of whale earwax plugs.
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Charley Potter

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A chiton displays its overlapping protective plates running down the back.
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Chiton on a Rock

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Male and female P. annecohenae, including several juvenile instars.
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Juvenile male and female P. annecohenae

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A painting of a shark attacking a man
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Watson and the Shark

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Ari Friedlaender, a research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab, tags a blue whale.
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Tagging a Blue Whale

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A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
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Caribbean Hermit Crab

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