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Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
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Rudist Clams

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The fringed baleen plates are easy to observe as this North Atlantic right whale skims the water’s surface while it feeds.
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Baleen in Action

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a round ball of a sea urchin nestled between rocks
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Toxic Nature of Flower Urchins

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Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.
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How Laws Around the World Help Improve Ocean Health

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Sarah Gotheil, from IUCN Global Marine Programme, snapped this photo in the course of her research into fragile species and ecosystems.
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Protecting Fragile Species

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a colored shakemap from the M5.8 Virginia Earthquake depicts the shake range and epicenter of the earthquake
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A Guide to Earthquake Lesson Plans

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Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
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A Tale of a Right Whale

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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a sculpture os a kayaker
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Kayaking

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Emperor shrimp, and two nudibranches at Dinah’s Beach, Papua New Guinea.
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Nudibranch With a Shrimp Partner

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On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.
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Sea Level Rise

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This species of bamboo coral, discovered in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest, has unusually long and impressive tentacles.
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Corals

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