Showing posts with label arctic ocean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arctic ocean. Show all posts

Friday, March 2, 2012

South Island-New Zealand

Photo by Kiwinz
Photo by thinboyfatter
Photo by mat79
Photo by timparkinson
Photo by Satoru Kikuchi
Photo by timparkinson

Monday, January 30, 2012

Bay of Fundy

Photo by GOC53

Friday, January 20, 2012

Marine Iguana

Photo by Lieutenant Elizabeth Crapo, NOAA Corps
The marine iguana uniquely inhabits the Galapagos Island and is able to forage and live in the sea.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Frogfish

Photo by Nick Hobgood
Ocellated frogfish live in the western Atlantic, eastern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

Luminous Ocean Waves

Photo by catalano82
The ocean wave glows due to the bioluminescent dinoflagellates emitting light.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Underwater Mystery

Photo by NOAA
A gelatinous, orangey, starfruit-ish looking creature is called an Aulacoctena.  It is a large softball-sized cydippid ctenophore drifting in the deep, dark, chilly Arctic ocean.