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A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
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Bleached Coral On Mesoamerican Reef

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A sunset over Boston Harbor.
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Sunset over Boston Harbor

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Giant Isopod from the Gulf of Mexico
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Giant Isopod

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Deep-sea dragonfish from Australia
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Dragonfish from Australia

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"Break On Through" was taken by Wendy Wolf at California's Pfeiffer Beach. This photo was a winning selection in the Portraits of Planet Ocean Flickr contest.
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Break on Through - Wendy Wolf

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Two longsnout seahorses underwater.
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Longsnout Seahorse

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A brittle star clings to the branches of a deep sea coral
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Brittle Star Coral Mutualism

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A common bottlenose dolphin swimming.
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Common Bottlenose Dolphin

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Oceanographers divide the ocean into three broad zones, each with different species.
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Zones of the Open Ocean

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A tiny piece of plastic photographed by a scanning electron micrograph.
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A Microbial Reef

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A fish made from pieces of plastic found on the beach swims above a bleached reef made of Styrofoam.
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Bleached Styrofoam Reef

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