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A physonect siphonophore, Marrus sp., photographed during NOAA's Arctic "Hidden Ocean" expedition in support of the Census of Marine Life. ©2005, Kevin Raskoff. Download full version (zip file). |
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Aphyonus gelatinosus, a strange bottom-dwelling fish covered by a gelatinous layer, has only been recorded twice. One of these times was by Census scientists during an expedition along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ©2004, David Shale. Download full version (zip file). |
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This red peniagone sea cucumber is one of four new species of sea cucumbers discovered by Census scientists along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ©2004, Andrey Gebruk. Download full version (zip file). |
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This bucket contains organisms from the Southern Ocean from a depth of more than 1,000 meters in. ©2005, Brigitte Hilbig. Download full version (zip file). |
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Census scientists participated in an expedition to the epicenter of the deadly December 256, 2004 Indonesian earthquake . Seafloor ruptures were photographed at a depth of 4,500 meters. ©2005, Darlow Smithson Productions. Download full version (zip file). |
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The yellow dots represent the journey of a tagged bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, which made a remarkable trans-Pacific migration three times in 600 days and traveled a distance of 40,000 kilometeres. Map courtesy of S. Benson, 2005. Download full version (zip file). |
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Census scientists were the first to photograph a deepwater copepod, Eaugaptilis hyperboreus, bearing its eggs. ©2005, Russ Hopcroft/NOAA. Download full version (zip file). |
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This polychaete worm of the genus Macrochaeta is one of many potentially new worm species found by Census scientists on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. ©2005, Bodil Bluhm. Download full version (zip file). |
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Census scientists photographed this jellyfish, Crossota millsae, in the depths of the Canada Basin, beyond its previously known range. ©2005, Kevin Raskoff. Download full version (zip file). |
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A new species of comb jelly, a cydipppid ctenophore, was discovered by Census scientists during a month-long expedition to the Arctic Ocean. ©2005, Kevin Raskoff. Download full version (zip file). |
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Sea cucumbers such as Kolga hyalina were the dominant sea floor fauna at several stations during an expedition to the Canada Basin. ©2005, Bodil Bluhm and Katrin Iken/NOAA. Download full version (zip file). |
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Census researchers documented biological hotspots in the Gulf of Maine. Here, two humpback whales feed on red krill. ©2005, P. Stevick. Download full version (zip file). |
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These two microbes (Lyngbya sp.on the left and Hastigerina pelagica) are examples of thousands of microbes being studied in the world's oceans. ©2000, D. Paterson and 1995, L. Amaral Zettler. Download full version (zip file). |
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Asbestopl, a never-before-known species of carnivorous sponge, about 1 cm in diameter, engulfs other organisms with its "mouth," one of four such species, three of them new to science, found in the Southern Ocean abyss. Copyright 2005. Dorte Janussen, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. Download full version (zip file). |
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Minute unicellular animals (called "xeno") use sediment grains to construct delicate shells that resemble a soccer ball. Copyright 2005. Dorte Janussen, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. Download full version (zip file). |
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