This page provides links to hundreds of images and videos of the living ocean, according to the following categories. Click on any image to view the entire collection.

Vertebrates: Fish / Skates and Eels / Sharks / Marine Mammals

Invertebrates: Sponges / Jellyfish, sea anemones / Corals / Sea stars, brittle stars, and sea urchins / Molluscs / Crabs and shrimp

Seafloor: Geologic features / Habitat / Bacterial Mats / Hydrates


Vertebrates

Band wing flyingfish A blackskate, a grenadier, sponges and anemones Cuban dogfish Breaching humpback.

Fish
Phylum Chordata

Skates and Eels
Phylum Chordata

Sharks
Phylum Chordata

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Invertebrates

large hexactinellid sponge Deep sea anemone corals video Giant red brittle star

Sponges
Phylum Porifera

Jellyfish, sea anemones
Phylum Cnidaria

Corals
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa

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A close-up view of an Amphipod. Live nautiliniellid worm. Foraminifera

Molluscs, octopi
Phylum Mollusca

Crabs, shrimp
Phylum Arthropoda

Marine Worms
Phylum Arthropoda

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Seafloor

Chimney sample embedded with "fossilized" tubeworms. Thick clouds of fish around one of the basalt spires at Alderdice Bank Orange bacterial mat Outcrop of white gas hydrate
A herbarium sheet with red algae