Planet Ocean

A Burst of Deep Sea Fireworks: A Rare Jellyfish Filmed by the E/V Nautilus

Gray whales feed by filtering out sediment from the ocean floor

The Monterey Bay is doing its best impression of our sea nettle exhibit! This year has seen a return of the classic sea nettles blooms we experience outside of El Niño cycles. These sea nettles were filmed inside the Monterey harbor a few weeks ago, pushed in by the tides and currents.

Medusa by ASGARRIDO

Flying Orca. Photos by Menno Schaefer.

The emotion this provokes in me is indescribable

Scientific illustration of jellyfish, Rhizostoma pulmo, and Cotylorhiza tuberculata, 1910.

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The Alabaster Nudibranch can be found in the temperate waters of the Pacific, from Alaska to California and along the coasts of Russia and Japan. The beautiful, wispy white tipped cerata are actually the animal’s lungs. But don’t let it’s delicate form fool you, this nudi’s jaws are strong enough to crack open the shell of a snail, one of its preferred meals - photo taken at Seattle, Washington

Graceful and critically endangered, an encounter with a hawksbill sea turtle will leave even us conservationists speechless. Nature Conservancy senior scientist @heystephwear swam alongside one on a recent trip to St. John in the Caribbean. The Conservancy is working to protect their nesting beaches, often the same beaches where they themselves were born. @nature_caribbean #turtle #seaturtle #caribbean #ocean #iliketurtles #endangeredspecies (at St John USVI)

Calf by Jason Isley