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The velvet crab's aggressive nature has earned it the nickname devil's crab.
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The Velvet Swimming Crab

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A bloom of moon jellies.
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A Bloom of Moon Jellies

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A blenny fish against both a white and black backdrop, where you can see its beautiful color pattern.
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A New Fish DROP-ping In

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Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) live in the warm coastal waters of tropical and subtropical oceans. Adults sometimes eat sponges, salps (floating jelly-like animals), and jellyfish, but they feed mostly on plants, like seagrass and algae. The pigment f
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Green Turtle

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Using dynamite to stun or kill bigger fish to sell at market leaves behind many dead undesired fish as bycatch.
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Fishing with Dynamite

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A brittled star clings to damaged deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico
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Brittle Star Clings to Damaged Deep-sea Corals

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X-ray image of a longnose butterflyfish
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X-Ray Image of a Longnose Butterflyfish

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X-ray image of a slender snipe eel
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X-Ray Image of a Slender Snipe Eel

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Jorge Velez-Juarbe, predoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Jorge Velez-Juarbe

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Paleobiologist Mark D. Uhen drills away rock to reveal the fossilized bones of Peruvian archaeocetes (ancient whales), in the Vertebrate Paleontology Department at the Museo de Historia Natural de San Marcos. Uhen is a professor at George Mason Univer
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Preparing a Fossil Whale Specimen

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The excavation site of an Inuit home in Hare Harbor, Quebec, Canada
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Excavation of an Inuit House

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 Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a specimen of a fan sponge (Phakellia sp.) collected at a deep-sea coral study site off the coast of South Carolina.    
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Fan Sponge

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