Search

Showing results for

Content type

Topics

Tags

In 2005, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) observed a deep-sea squid species (Gonatus onyx) that keeps close watch over her eggs.
Photo

Squid Watching Over Eggs

View Image
By pumping enormous test tubes that are 60-feet deep and hold almost 15,000 gallons of water with carbon dioxide to make the water inside more acidic, researchers can study how zooplankton, phytoplankton and other small organisms will adapt in the wild.
Photo

Studying Acidification in the Field

View Image
A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
Photo

Midwater Squid, Abralia veranyi

View Image
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area site in Kiribati was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010. The site encompasses one of the world's largest intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems, together with 14 known underwater seamounts and other deep
Photo

Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati

View Image
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Photo

Dr. Sylvia Earle Testifies on Gulf Oil Spill

View Image
Tiny "flakes" of marine snow.
Photo

A Snowy Underwater Wonderland

View Image
These shrimp-like crustaceans called Gnathophausia are incredibly hardy and only need to eat every few months.
Photo

Intense Fasting

View Image
Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
Photo

Orange Roughy and Bycatch

View Image
a three panel of the dragonfish
Photo

Snaggletooth Dragonfish

View Image
a red and blue copepod
Photo

Traveling Copepods

View Image
a floating sea cucumber
Photo

Pink Sea Cucumber

View Image
Museum Specialist Ruth Gibbons, aboard a deep sea research vessel processing specimens
Photo

Ruth Gibbons

View Image