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This close-up view of salps, which have aggregated together into a long chain, have brilliant red guts from eating red plankton.
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Close-up View of Salps

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The fins of the frogfish are perfect for creeping around in the algae and stalking unsuspecting prey.
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Frogfish Histrio histrio

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Great White Sharks breach to hunt -- with split-second timing they grab their prey in one swift snatch. Follow the whole breaching action in this slideshow.
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Breaching Great White Shark on the Hunt

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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Caught on Video: Giant Squid

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

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Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
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Orange Roughy and Bycatch

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Squid expert Dr. Clyde Roper examines specimens stored in jars in the Smithsonian collection.
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Dr. Clyde Roper

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una foto en blanco y negro de un yate de la década de 1930
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Recuerdo de la primera expedición del Smithsonian a Puerto Rico

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Alvin, a human occupied vehicle (HOV), returns to the ship after a dive.
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From Submarines to Robots: Exploring the Deep Ocean

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a bunch of squid and ammonoids hide in a forest of sea lilies
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The Cephalopods' Hideout

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A half-cast and skeleton of a humpback whale in the National Museum
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A Half-Cast of a Whale

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