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This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
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Queen Parrotfish

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During whale hunts, this carved whale box stored harpoon blades like the three shown beside it.
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Inupiat Harpoon Box

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Researchers have identified five areas of high North Atlantic right whale concentration between Canada and Florida.
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Finding Phoenix

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The rough patches of skin known as callosities occur in unique patterns on all North Atlantic right whales and help researchers identify and track individual whales. This whale is named Phoenix.
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Close Up of Phoenix’s Callosities

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This photograph was snapped as Phoenix swam in the Gulf of Maine in July 2008.
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Phoenix near Maine

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Phoenix is seen skim feeding off the coast of Maine in August 2004.
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Phoenix Feeding

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Since 1987, researchers have been tracking Phoenix.
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Meet Phoenix—One of about 450 remaining North Atlantic Right Whales

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This ivory sculpture from Point Barrow, Alaska, represents Kikámigo, a guardian spirit, holding a whale in each hand.
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Inupiat Guardian Spirit

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A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.
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Dispersant Deployed From The Air

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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
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Aquatic Locomotion of a Sea Lion

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A bright-green sea slug with a black background.
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Sea Slugs: One Species at a Time

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Brian Skerry takes an up close photo of a tiger shark on the seafloor.
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Face to Face with a Tiger Shark

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