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A round sea potato with hair-like spikes laying flat against its body.
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Sea Potato

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Photograph of many tiny transparent larval squid surrounding the head of a dissecting pin.
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Squid Babies

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Seagrasses don't just provide shelter for free-swimming animals, but also are a habitat for non-moving organisms, such as these sea anemones.
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Anemone on Seagrass Blade

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Seahorses are the only fish species that can hold your hand! Unlike most fish that use their tails for swimming, seahorses, such as this big-belly seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis), use their monkey-like tails to hold onto objects in their environment, li
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Seahorses Have Monkey-Like Tails

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This crab has a parasitic barnacle rooted in its reproductive system.
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Parasitic Barnacle on a Crab

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Pearly nacre of a nautilus shell
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Osmena Pearl

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A cross-section of a nautilus shell is not only beautiful, it also is a great example of the chambered cephalopod shell. The projections splitting each chamber are the siphuncle tubes that allow gas and liquid to be transferred from chamber to chamber. 
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Chambered Shells

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Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus all have differently shaped pupils— an octopus has a rectangular pupil.
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Octopus Eyes

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A slipper lobster
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Slipper Lobster

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Hundreds of illustrated red crabs gathering on sand with Santa hats.
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Santa Claws is Coming to Town

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A cuttlefish eye
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Dazzling Eyes

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A sea sponge underwater
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Sponges of the Sea

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