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World map during last ice age
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Ice Age Map of the World

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Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.
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Tiny, but Deadly

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These shrimp-like crustaceans called Gnathophausia are incredibly hardy and only need to eat every few months.
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Intense Fasting

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Chuniphyes are siphonophores—colonial organisms in the same phylum as jellyfish, working together to survive.
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Ultimate Teamwork

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Imagine eating an entire fish bigger than you—bones and all! At only 25 cm long, the black swallower often eats fish much larger than itself with the help of an expanding stomach. Sometimes the meal is so large that there isn’t enough time for digestio
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Black Swallower

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he pineapplefish has glowing organs that can be used to find prey at night.
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I Found the Pineapple!

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A pearly razorfish
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Pearly Razorfish

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Goliath grouper during the annual spawning event in Jupiter, FL.
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Goliath Grouper

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Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
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Spinner Dolphins

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Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

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A red Scypholanceola aestiva stares at the screen with large orange eyes.
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Scypholanceola aestiva

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Spotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
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The Cat-Like Eyes of a Catshark

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