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thin, green stalks of a succulent plant grow up
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Sea Beans

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A close-up of tiny teeth on the common whelk's radula.
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A Snail's Rainbow Radula

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A preserved cookie cutter shark, in a jar.
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Cookie Monster of the Sea

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Antarctica is almost entirely covered by ice sheets up to two miles (3 km) thick, which contain roughly 70% of the world’s freshwater.
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Ross Sea Ice Shelf

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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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Corolla moves through the water by flapping a wing plate nearly twice the size of its gelatinous shell, giving it the nickname “sea butterfly”.
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Sea Butterfly

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Dover Sole Skin
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Close-Up of Dover Sole Skin

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A hawksbill sea turtle with a transmitter on its back.
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Satellite-Tagged Hawksbill Sea Turtle

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Two researchers, looking for fossil whales, scan a rock formation in Peru's Pisco Basin.
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Searching for Fossil Whales in Peru

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Kemp’s ridley turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) are the smallest sea turtles, weighing only 100 lbs (45 kg). Adults spend most of their time in shallow coastal areas in places with mud, sand, or gravel bottoms—often in seagrass beds. They eat swimming crab
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Kemp's Ridley Turtle

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Mantis shrimp have built-in polarized vision to help them see underwater—and maybe even communicate.
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Built-in Underwater Polarized Lenses?

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“This image was captured during an evening dive in water where the largest migration on Earth occurs nightly. This miniscule squid was less than an inch long, transparent, and highly reflective, which made proper exposure extremely difficult. Over hundre
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Larval Squid, Coast of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA

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