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Thumbnail of a schematic of an island, boat, and a Right Whale.
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Ocean Optimism Video - Slow Down For Right Whales

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A man, surrounded by fish skins hanging to dry, kneels before a large pit as he demonstrates the tanning process.
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Ainu Fish Skin Tanning Workshop

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Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to scientists through a GPS satellite. Some of the 5.7 million data points about the drifters locations are seen in this map of the Gulf.
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Tracking CARTHE Drifters

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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

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Red Algae
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Branching Red Algae

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Corallimorpharian
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Soft Coral Close-Up

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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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Arctic Tern on the Inner Farne Island.
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Arctic Tern

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The tasseled wobbegong, has a fringe of dermal lobes around its entire head, each of which is elaborately branched.
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Wobbegong Shark

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A Pholas dactylus clam illustration.
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The Borer of Holes

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A blue crab on the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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Coastal Blue Crab

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Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.
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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

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