Pinniped Porn: Harbor Seal Tries to Mate with Videographer

Charlie Lofton: Videographer Barbara Lloyd

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Charlie Lofton: Cadlina luetomarginata

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Charlie Lofton: Giant Spined Stars at NOSC Tower

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Deep Sea Sea Cucumber

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Scott Gietler: Photos from San Miguel Island

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Charlie Lofton: Tiny Red Gorgonian on Rock Formation

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Charlie Lofton: Elkhorn Kelp

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Flora and Fauna Below 1,000 meters

Charlie Lofton: Videographer Barbara Lloyd Ascending Anchor Line

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Thousands of Species Live in the Deepest, Darkest Part of Ocean

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight — creatures that somehow manage a living…

Kevin Lee: Hilton’s Aeolid in Freefall, San Miguel Island

Charlie Lofton: Painted Greenling

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