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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Marine Parasites: Crazy…and Really Cool!

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By pumping enormous test tubes that are 60-feet deep and hold almost 15,000 gallons of water with carbon dioxide to make the water inside more acidic, researchers can study how zooplankton, phytoplankton and other small organisms will adapt in the wild.
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Studying Acidification in the Field

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Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.
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Are You My Mommy?

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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Juvenile plane-head filefish

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dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

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A teacher and a young boy paint a fish mold to create a Gyotaku style print
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Gyotaku Fish Prints

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This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.
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Purple Sea Urchin

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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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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Caribbean Coral Reef and Climate Case Study

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Fossil Forams and the Scientific Process

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Benthic Drug Store

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