Search

Showing results for

Content type

Article Type

Topics

Tags

A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
Article

You Light Up My World!

Read the Full Article
Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
Article

Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

Read the Full Article
This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.
Photo

Purple Sea Urchin

View Image
Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
Article

Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

Read the Full Article
Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
Article

A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

Read the Full Article
Sea star in a tide pool
Photo

Tide Pools and Adaptations

View Image
Very colorful array of jellyfish.
Video

Jellyfish predate dinosaurs. How have they survived so long?

Watch the Video
A female (top left) and male Photerus annecohenae. Note that females are larger than males (sexual dimorphism) and that males have bigger eyes.
Photo

A female and male Photerus annecohenae

View Image
An isopod stands on top of a glass sponge, extending its legs to find zooplankton.
Photo

Isopod in a Glass Home

View Image
The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
Article

Marine Parasites: Crazy…and Really Cool!

Read the Full Article
This small sea star, little more than an inch across, is orange on top and whitish underneath.
Photo

Little Sea Star

View Image
Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.
Article

Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

Read the Full Article