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Hermit crabs, like this one collected in Moorea, usually protect their soft, vulnerable abdomens from predators by reusing empty snail shells. This specimen shows the crab without its customary borrowed shelter.
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Hermit Crab Without a Shell

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This colony of <em>Rosacea</em> may look like a single jellyfish, but it is actually a large group of smaller siphonophores clustered and living together.
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Jellyfish, or Siphonophore Colony?

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An orange and white octopus sits on the bottom of the ocean.
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White-striped Octopus

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Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe.
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Carving the Canoe

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A young Kemp's ridley sea turtle in recovery.
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Kemp’s ridley sea turtle recovers from oil

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A diagram of a shark's six highly refined senses: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism
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Shark Senses

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This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
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From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

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Screenshot from video of a diver swimming with an underwater camera.
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The Trouvadore: A Story of Deliverance

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Mah says of the spiny goniasterid sea stars, "They're very efficient and we've seen them devour the polyps inside primnoids&nbsp;kind of the way I just had my cookie."&nbsp;
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Sea Stars Feed on Octocorals

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Bled Out Depths by Stephanie Tian
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Bled Out Depths

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Boats docked in a Chesapeake Bay harbor
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Rapa Whelks: Invaders of the Chesapeake Bay

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