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The tough serrated ring around the opening grips the squid’s prey.
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Giant Squid Sucker

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a gray whale pokes its head above the sea surface
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Atlantic Gray Whales: Past, Present, and Future

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Only 2,000 individuals of the endangered short-tailed albatross remain after the species was hunted for its feathers in the 1940s.
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Short-tailed Albatross

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug
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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

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How well could you eat with a saw on your face? If you were a sawshark, you couldn’t eat without one! Sawsharks are named for their long snouts, which have sharp teeth protruding from either side. They attack their prey by slashing these “saws” from
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Sawshark

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Two nautiluses in the open ocean off the coast of Palau.
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A Couple of Nautiluses

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An image of collections storage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Smithsonian Fish Collections

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Local yarn and craft shops were highly involved in creating the Smithsonian Community Reef—the local community’s accompaniment to the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit.
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Crochet Coral Reef Community Window Display

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