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Colorful crustaceans from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
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Colorful Caribbean Crustaceans

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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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The Sargassum frogfish is a small but voracious predator - it can ingest animals up to it’s own size!
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Sargassum Frogfish

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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A gray seal on the shores of Surtsey, Iceland.
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A Unique World Heritage Site: Surtsey, Iceland

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The National Museum of Natural History's Department of Invertebrate Zoology has developed an online map that provides information about invertebrates in the National Collection from areas impacted by the oil spill.
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Google map of invertebrates in oil spill region

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Nuclear bomb in Bikini Atoll
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Nuclear Bombs on the Coral Reef

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A red and white colored bristle worm swims in the water column.
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A Striped Deep Sea Worm

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Polar bear siblings in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area near Hudson Bay spar playfully during migration.
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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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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Caught on Video: Giant Squid

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