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This young Gonatus squid is still translucent, making it tricky for predators to spot it.
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Deep Sea Squid

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Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug
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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

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A ribbon worm curled up in a mud flat.
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The Search for an Elusive Ribbon Worm

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A photo of plastic trash floating in the water, taken from below the surface.
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Witness to a Plastic Invasion

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The vicious "killer shrimp."
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Rough Reputation: Are Invasive Species All Bad?

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The Havre volcano lies three thousand feet (900 meters) beneath the sea surface.
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The Mystery of an Underwater Volcano

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"Ocean sunfish" by Mark Harris
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Chasing a Basking Shark

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Jaw of the goblin shark
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The Goblin Shark

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A puffin sits on a rock next to a puffin decoy.
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Puffin and Decoy

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Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

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A blue crab on the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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A Bite of Bitter Crab

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This rainbow sheen on the sea surface is what it looks like when the oil bubbles make it to the sea surface.
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Oily Sheen On Sea Surface

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