Search
A pearly razorfish
Photo

Pearly Razorfish

View Image
An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.
Photo

Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

View Image
Ghost shark swimming
Photo

Ghost Shark

View Image
A crab with numerous
Photo

Decorator Crab

View Image
An environmental chemist collects samples of oil in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The resulting chemical “fingerprint” of the oil will help determine the origin of other samples.
Photo

Oil Samples in the Gulf

View Image
A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
Photo

Aeolid Nudibranch Defense

View Image
Like other cephalopods, the common cuttlefish (Sepia officials Linnaeus, 1758) possesses serious brain power.
Photo

Common cuttlefish

View Image
A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
Photo

Smithsonian Marine Collections on Google Earth

View Image
A marine iguana looks off in the distance.
Audio

Marine Iguanas: One Species at a Time

Listen to the Audio
Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.
Photo

Coal plant

View Image
Photograph of a many-armed sea star with maroon and white feathery-looking arms, with a deep red sea fan in the background.
Photo

Feather Star

View Image
400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
Photo

Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

View Image