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With seven pairs of legs, nine eyes, and shells the shape of flying saucers, horseshoe crabs look like aliens from the deep.
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Horseshoe Crab from Thailand

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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Crochet Reef
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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Reef

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The Smithsonian Marine Mammal team moves into action after a dead sperm whale is spotted floating off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
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Sperm Whale Post-Mortem

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Spotfin lionfish in Caribbean waters
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Spotfin Lionfish

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This is the most common songbird in the mangroves of the Caribbean’s Mangal Cay.
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Mangrove Yellow Warbler

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New England Aquarium researchers Dr. Moira Brown and Yan Guilbault conducting aerial surveys for North Atlantic right whales over the Roseway Basin, Canada.
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Right Whale Aerial Survey

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Dr. Ilka C. “Candy” Feller studies mangroves in the small streams of Panama.
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Dr. Candy Feller Explores Mangroves

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Black Axil Chromis on a Coral Reef

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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Parasitic Worms in a Fish

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A photo of plastic trash floating in the water, taken from below the surface.
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Marine Debris

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As soon as Dampier set foot in Australia, he began making observations and collecting specimens of plants, which he carefully pressed between the pages of books to be studied by the “ingenious” and “curious” upon his return to England. As Dampier conducted his investigations, his artist made detailed sketches like these.
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Discoveries in Australia and New Guinea

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Wooden skeleton of an orca.
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This Whale Sculpture Was Modeled After a Beached Orca

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