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an illustration of various squids and octopuses
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How Big are the Cephalopods?

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a large room of shelves filled with jars
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The Worm Collection

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a crab next to a coral den
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Crabs Make Coral Castles

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a fringed fossil feather star
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Ancient Crinoid

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The loco (Concholepas concholepas, often called the Chilean abalone, although it isn’t actually an abalone) is found along the entire coast of Chile.
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The Loco of Chile

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A starfish eating a mussel.
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Starfish Feeding on Mussels

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Emperor shrimp, and two nudibranches at Dinah’s Beach, Papua New Guinea.
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Nudibranch With a Shrimp Partner

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This is a series of images showing how a typical nightly courtship display would look like, where certain males initiate the display (2), others follow (3), and different species display their own unique “light shows” nearby (4 and 5).
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A typical nightly courtship display for P. annecohenae

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Crown of Thorns Starfish in the Marianas Islands
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Crown of Thorns Starfish

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This halimeda crab’s disguise did not fool researchers in Moorea where it was collected.
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Halimeda Crab

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This bright purple sea star is a new species found by the Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems, a project of the Census of Marine Life.
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Purple Sea Star

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Despite the cold and dark environment, soft-bodied animals like anemones abound under the ice in the Antarctic.
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Anemone in Cold Antarctic Water

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