John Dory
Big eye, snap-mouth, seabed hunter
Animal Habitats
Open Ocean
Pelagic waters away from coasts, home to migratory fish and marine mammals
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Open Ocean Animals
Beluga Sturgeon
Ancient giant, modern warning
Yellow Tang
Reef lawnmower in sunshine-yellow
Gulper Eel
Big mouth. Bigger mystery.
Pollock
Pollock: cod-family powerhouse seafood
Oarfish
Ribbon giants of the twilight sea
Arctic Char
Built for ice-cold waters
Sea Snake
Elapids that learned to breathe the sea
Sheepshead Fish
Built to bite shells off the dock
American Paddlefish
Paddle-snouted plankton hunter
Giant Isopod
The deep sea's armored scavenger
Thresher Shark
The shark that hunts with a whip
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
White-tipped wings of the high seas
Lemon Shark
Twin dorsal fins, coastal king
Hainosaurus
Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas
Palaeophis
Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae
Desmostylus
Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts
Paleoparadoxia
The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"
Scallops
The clapping swimmers of the seafloor
Chiton
Eight plates. One unstoppable grip.
Sand Dollar
Coins of the seafloor, built to burrow
American Eel
Born at sea, raised in rivers.
Atlantic Sturgeon
Armored river giant of the Atlantic
Mullet Fish
Coastal recyclers in fast-moving schools