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Researchers adopted the “yabbie pump,” the long silver tool shown here, from Australian fishing gear.
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Collecting Shallow-Water Specimens with the "Yabbie Pump"

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Charles Potter (left) and Dr. James Mead of the Smithsonian perform a post-mortem examination on a goose-beaked whale specimen.
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Goose-Beaked Whale Post-Mortem

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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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A Starfish Wasting Away

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A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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Coral Spawning by Moonlight

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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Smithsonian Marine Collections on Google Earth

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A headshot of Sharon Katz Cooper looking at camera.
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Podcast: Sharon Katz Cooper on Building the Sant Ocean Hall

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Phoenix, a North Atlantic right whale tracked by researchers, was spotted near New Hampshire on May 5th, 2010.
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Phoenix Sighting May 2010

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Dr. Chris Reddy, an environmental chemist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studies oil spills and their long-term impacts.
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Oil & Water Don't Mix

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A frame-by-frame view of a Great White Shark breach- frame 1.
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Breaching Sequence 1

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Sea Turtle
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Green Sea Turtle

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A look into a whale shark mouth.
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A Smiling Gentle Giant

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A smasher mantis shrimp came out from its burrow on fringing reef adjacent to US Liberty ship wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 6 meters.
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Smasher Mantis Shrimp

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