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Dolphins swimming among oily patches in the Gulf of Mexico
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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

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A school of grooved razorfish seen in x-ray imaging.
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X-Ray Image of Grooved Razorfish

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X-ray image of a long-spined porcupine fish
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X-Ray Image of a Long-Spined Porcupine Fish

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A newly hatched leatherback turtle moves in the sand.
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Habitat for Leatherback Turtles

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The Papahanaumokuakea site in the United States was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010. The site is a vast isolated cluster of small low-lying islands and atolls surrounded by ocean that provides safe habitat for endangered species like the green
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Papahanaumokuakea, United States

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The fluorescent shortnose greeneye fish.
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A Shortnose Greeneye Fish Aglow

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This whale is entangled in fishing gear. The inset shows how special fishing lines allow whales to escape such accidental entrapments.
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Fishing Gear Solutions

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Phoenix’s entanglement badly injured her right lip, leaving a distinctive scar from that ordeal.
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Beware of Fishing Gear

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Hermit crabs, like this one collected in Moorea, usually protect their soft, vulnerable abdomens from predators by reusing empty snail shells. This specimen shows the crab without its customary borrowed shelter.
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Hermit Crab Without a Shell

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A red and yellow gyotaku-style fish print of a flounder
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Gyotaku Flounder

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Smithsonian scientists race the tide the excavate an ancient whale fossil entombed in rock
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Racing the Tide

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This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Deep Sea Copepod

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