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With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.
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Beyond the Sea: How Oil Spills in the Ocean Affect Birds On Land

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coral polyps
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Healthy Coral Polyps

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a sea turtle swims toward the surface
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Sea Turtle Goes Up for Air

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mussels and shrimp
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Cold Seep Mussel Bed

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green colored cells of the bacterium prochlorococcus
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Prochlorococcus

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a horned puffin sits among the rocks with its feet tucked under its belly
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The Horned Puffin

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George Watters on the deck of a boat holding two fish.
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George Watters, Director of NOAA’s Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division

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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Coral Under Pressure: Monitoring Bleaching In Real Time

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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How Sea Slugs Steal the Defenses of Their Prey

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