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It's a pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), found in Indonesia's biodiverse Coral Triangle and one of the smallest seahorse species in the world! They can change colors like a chameleon to blend into their environment. This helps to protect them from p
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Can You Spot the Seahorse?

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The Phoenix Islands Protected Area site in Kiribati was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010. The site encompasses one of the world's largest intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems, together with 14 known underwater seamounts and other deep
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Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati

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A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to grow corals before transferring them to a larger tank. You can see several staghorn coral colonies - it has a branching structure and the white tips indicate healthy, new g
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Tank at St. Lucie County Aquarium

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What Do Scientists Do?

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The Okeanos team comes upon an octocoral colony overgrown by zooanthid cnidarians, sea anemone-like animals, that gives it a beautiful red and orange coloring. 
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A Battle With Octocoral for Food

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Marine Plastics

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a fuzzy brown sea anemone cover the coral
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Corallimorphs

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Coral showing signs of disease
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Disease Takes Hold

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a trigger fish swims around a coral reef
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The Incredible Diversity of Fish: How Form Equals Function

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Portrait of a yellow-green blennie (family Clinidae) hiding in the groove of a green brain coral.
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Hiding Blennie

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Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.
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Cabo Pulmo Marine Reserve

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