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Once common in the West Indies, the Black Capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata), which breeds in high Caribbean mountains, is now on the endangered species list.
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Black-Capped Petrel

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Sooty Shearwaters Migrate
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Sooty Shearwater

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Pomarine Jaegers (Stercorarius pomarinus) are predatory and pirate-like seabirds that will often steal prey from other birds.
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Pomarine Jaeger Skims the Surface

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A look into a whale shark mouth.
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A Smiling Gentle Giant

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The corkwing wrasse is able to change color for many reasons.
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The Amazing Color Changing Corkwing Wrasse

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A smasher mantis shrimp came out from its burrow on fringing reef adjacent to US Liberty ship wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 6 meters.
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Smasher Mantis Shrimp

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A white Antarctic landscape with John Weller standing away from the camera in the distance.
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Protecting a Pristine Ocean

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Three distinct types of killer whale can be found in the Antarctic, each with a different habitat and diet preference.
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Orcas in the Antarctic

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Every year as the sun disappears for the winter, the surface waters around Antarctica freeze into a slab of ice 10-feet thick, which effectively doubles the size of the continent.
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Antarctic Pack Ice

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The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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Map of the Ross Sea

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Superheated magma slowly leaks from a crack in the seafloor.
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Superheated Magma Underwater

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Bottlenose dolphin pod
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Bottlenose Dolphin Pod

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