Search

Showing results for

Language

Content type

Article Type

Topics

Tags

These wormlike animals make spiral tracks on the sea floor.
Photo

Deep-Sea Worms

View Image
A deep-sea octopod wraps itself around a submersible’s robotic arm in the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo

Octopod on Submersible Arm

View Image
The New England Seamount Chain is the longest in the North Atlantic Ocean and includes peaks of more than 30 extinct volcanoes.
Photo

Map of New England Seamount Chain

View Image
Sea Turtle
Photo

Green Sea Turtle

View Image
The “Dumbo Octopod” swims by moving its fins, pulsing its webbed arms, or pushing water through its funnel for jet propulsion.
Photo

Grimpoteuthis, The Dumbo Octopus

View Image
Burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, spews almost 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Photo

Smokestack from coal plant

View Image
Colorful layers of a microscopic foram.
Photo

A Colorful Foram: Globigerinoides ruber

View Image
Amanda Feuerstein with a nesting olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea). Feuerstein is a co-author of a study that surveyed algae, crustaceans, mollusks, and other epibionts that live on the turtles in the Pacific Ocean.
Photo

Searching for Life -- Epibionts -- On Sea Turtles

View Image
"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
Photo

The Trials of Ship-Bound Research

View Image
An offshore cage is stocked with 70,000 Pacific threadfin (Polydactylus sexfilis).
Photo

Commercial Aquaculture

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

Lichen Zones

View Image
This rarely seen smalleyed rabbitfish, belongs to the order Chimaera. Chimaeras are related to sharks and are cartilaginous animals—they have no real bones.
Photo

Chimaera from the Deep

View Image