Hermit Crab
Borrowed shells, bold lives
Animal Habitats
Open Ocean
Pelagic waters away from coasts, home to migratory fish and marine mammals
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Open Ocean Animals
Moray Eel
Crevice kings with a second bite
Wrasse
Wrasses: the reef's colorful caretakers
Fin Whale
The fast rorqual with a split-color jaw
Tropicbird
Streamers of the tropical seas
Basking Shark
Big mouth, tiny prey.
Oyster
Reef builders that clean the coast
Horseshoe Crab
Beach Spawners, Blue-Blooded Guardians
Barracuda
Silver speedsters with a bite
Snail
One class, a thousand ways to snail.
Pond Skater
Skating predators of the surface film
Manta Ray
Wings of the sea, built to filter
Sperm Whale
Square head, deep dives, giant squid.
Humboldt Penguin
Built for the Humboldt Current
Rockhopper Penguin
Small penguin. Big cliff-hopper energy.
Royal Penguin
Macquarie's white-faced crested king
Crested Penguin
Yellow brows, ocean pros.
Yellow-Eyed Penguin
New Zealand's yellow-eyed diver
African Penguin
The braying penguin of the Cape
Galapagos Penguin
The penguin that lives on the equator
Little Penguin
Tiny diver, big coastal survivor
Gentoo Penguin
White-capped speedster of the South
King Penguin
Royal diver of the Southern Ocean
Magellanic Penguin
Double-banded traveler of Patagonia