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This orange boring sponge (Cliona varians) overgrows several coral species at Panama's Smithsonian Tropical Studies Institute.
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Boring Sponge on Coral

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two polychaete worms side by side
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Pettibone's Polychaete

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Acorn barnacles living on top of a crab.
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An Edible Crab Covered with Barnacles

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Three types of squid tentacles and their suckers
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A Squid's Suckers

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Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

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Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.
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Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own

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A translucent arctic comb jelly.
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Arctic Comb Jelly

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

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Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a squat lobster (Eumunida picta) collected at the Lophelia reefs off Cape Lookout, North Carolina.    
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Squat Lobster from Reefs of North Carolina

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A giant squid dissection
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Dissecting a Giant Squid

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Despite its demonic look, the vampire squid collects and eats drifting particles called "marine snow" using two long, sticky filaments.
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The Vampire Squid from Hell

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Photo collage of six species of invertebrates.
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Invertebrates from the Gulf of Mexico

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