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The Raven Spirit is now prominently displayed in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall.
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The Canoe's Permanent Home

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Nuclear bomb in Bikini Atoll
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Nuclear Bombs on the Coral Reef

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A student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures
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Design Your Own Bag

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Hantkenina mexicana -- a foram with elongated shell chambers that lived between 45-49 million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch.
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Hantkenina mexicana

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A photo of a sea walnut, a ctenophore.
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Sea Walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi)

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Dr. Clyde Roper (rear) and museum specialist Mike Sweeny examine a giant squid specimen.
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Studying Giant Squid

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Circular scars from a giant squid sucker on sperm whale skin.
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Giant Squid Sucker Marks

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A veined octopus sits inside a vacant bivalve shell, which it uses as a portable shelter, in the Philippines. This is one of the few examples—if not the only example—of tool use in invertebrates.
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Veined Octopus at Anilao Batangas Pier, Philippines

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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Bits of Plastic Marine Debris

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grains of sand collected from Orient Point, Long Island, NY
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Sand from Orient Point, Long Island, New York

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A point made of Ramah Chert that belonged to the early Eskimo group known as the Groswater Dorset Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center
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Early Eskimo Point

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A fragment of European ballamine ceramic that was excavated at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada in 2011
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Fragment of a European Bellarmine Jug

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