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Photo of a sperm whale just below the water's surface.
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Sperm Whale, Dominica

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A whale shark swimming in the water.
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Tagging Along With Whale Sharks

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Students from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab delegation plant smooth cord grass in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Their project is addressing the impacts of rising sea levels on critical coastal habitats through both marsh restoration in the Mobile Bay area and educatio
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Dauphin Island Sea Lab Delegation

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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Caught on Video: Giant Squid

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Salps are tube-shaped, soft, transparent animals that swim through the ocean, straining out plant food as they go.
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Antarctic Salps

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“The southern elephant seal is a truly restrained behemoth. Males can grow to be five times larger than females, up to 5,000 pounds. This elephant seal may look fierce, but he was simply yawning over and over in the wave-wash. This allowed me to try mult
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Southern Elephant Seal, Gold Harbour, South Georgia

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Spiral-tufted bryozoan
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A Bryozoan's Medical Endosymbiont

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A transparent amphipod looks a bit like a lobster, surrounded by white eggs.
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Amphipod: Salp Invader

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A sea butterfly, or sea snail, swims in the open ocean.
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A Swimming Snail

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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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Kelps are large, brown algae that grow along coasts around the world, especially in cooler regions.
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Kelp Pennant

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corals of many colors in the deep sea
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Deep Gulf Restoration After a Monumental Oil Spill

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