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Salps are tube-shaped, soft, transparent animals that swim through the ocean, straining out plant food as they go.
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Antarctic Salps

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Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal

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Nine small invertebrates held on two fingers.
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A Handful of Biodiversity

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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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An underwater photo of coral recovering from a bleaching event.
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Resilient Coral

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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Cambrian Period, featuring an arthropod, annelids, and other animals.
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Cambrian Period (542 – 488 Million Years Ago)

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This 1874 illustration of California gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) shows a group of individuals at the edge of their modern day range in the North Pacific Ocean, blocked from traveling further east into Arctic waters by thick ice barriers.
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California Grays Among the Ice

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Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.
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Surgeonfish: Indicators of a Healthy Reef

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Orangutan crabs are covered in thin reddish hairs, and are frequently found living in bubble coral.
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Orangutan Crabs from Komodo Island

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