A Shortfin Mako shark is found worldwide and is one of the fastest sharks, clocked at over 40 miles per hour. Newscom
A Green sea turtle and a pilot fish swim in the Red Sea near Egypt. NEWSCOM
A rare blue lobster is seen in Portsmouth, N.H., in this Aug. 19 photo. Geoff Cunningham/Foster's Daily Democrat/AP
Yang Yang (r.) kisses a Beluga whale during a publicity photocall at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World. China Daily/Reuters/FILE
Sally Lightfoot crabs scramble over volcanic rocks in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. The crabs are common along the western coast of South America and are one of the many colorful species that inhabit the Galapagos. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/FILE
A California Sea Otter sleeps with its paws on its face. NEWSCOM
A baby male Orca whale named 'Earth' and his mother 'Lovey,' perform at Kamogawa Sea World in Kamogawa, Japan, in July. Itsuo Inouye/AP/FILE
A diver looks at a giant jellyfish, which is three-feet in diameter, off of Echizen, Japan, on the central coast. The jellyfish can weigh up to 330 pounds and began appearing in the Sea of Japan in mid-August 2002. Tetsuji Asano/Asahi Shimbun/AP/FILE
A clown fish swims in an anemone in a tank at the HQ Aquarium in Queensland, Australia. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/FILE
A migrant whale shark swims near Bentar Beach in Probolinggo, Indonesia. A group of the whale sharks appear annually in the area between January and March to find warmer waters, food, and plankton. Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters
A baby Loggerhead sea turtle is held by a member of the Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program in July in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla. The local fire department helped the group remove 50 of the babies who had fallen into a storm drain, attracted by the lights of a nearby parking structure. In July, the Floria Atlantic Coast is the in the height of the Sea Turtle hatching and nesting season. Only one in 1,000 of the nestlings make it to adulthood. Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/AP/FILE
Plumose Sea Anemones are seen in Alaska. NEWSCOM
A moray eel is shown here. Morays rest in darker crevices during the day and are nocturnal predators. Morays are generally patterned, and can be camoflauged even inside the mouth, where they have large teeth and wide jaws, which allows them to grasp their prey and restrain it. NEWSCOM
Sharks in a school of fish come near the surface of the water. NEWSCOM
Puffer fish are very maneuverable, but slow fish, and are equipped with a defense mechanism that allows them to inflate rapidly. They fill elastic stomachs with water, making them seem bigger. The puffers are also covered in small spines, which protrude when they puff. Puffer fish are the second most poisonous vertebrate in the world, bedhind a Golden Poison Frog. The skin and certain internal organs of the fish are highly toxic to humans. NEWSCOM
Orange sea anemone are seen in the Seward Aquarium in Alaska. The glowing tube is the body of the creature, and the bouquet of tentacles is lined with nematocysts, or venemous cells, used to seize prey. NEWSCOM
A school of Bigeye Snappers swims by in waters off of Thailand. NEWSCOM
Green turtles swim in a tank at a turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, Sri Lanka, in July. Turtle hatcheries along the coast of Sri Lanka provide a way of earning a living for the people running them and also help combat the poaching of turtle eggs. Vivek Prakash/Reuters
A surfer holds a starfish in Tofino, British Columbia. NEWSCOM
A group of Krill, small, shrimp-like marine invertebrates, are seen here. Krill are primarily food for baleen whales, manta rays, whale sharks, crabeater seals, and other seals, as well as some seabird species. They are found in oceans all over the world. NEWSCOM
Common seals peer out of the water at a seal station in Friedrichskoog at the North Sea, Germany,in August. Some 60 seal pups were reared at the seal station in the last few months and will be reintroduced to their natural habitat. Heribert Proepper/AP
Manta rays are the largest of the rays and are found throughout tropical waters around the world, mostly around coral reefs. The largest specimen was recorded at 25 feet across and weighing about 5,000 pounds. Mantas are known to be curious animals and often swim with scuba divers. They have also been known to surface or breach the water. Here a diver and Manta ray swim off of Maldives Island in the Indian Ocean. NEWSCOM
Michael Kandler (l.) and Thomas Ulrich (r.) measure the sand tiger shark named Sharkline at the Sea Center in Burg, Germany, during their annual inventory. Some 1,500 marine animals from 250 species are living at the center. Heribert Proepper/AP
A rare river otter is the first seen in San Francisco in decades. River otters are a living barometer of water quality – if it's bad they cannot thrive.
A rapt crowd followed a trail of bubbles that zipped over the surface of a seaside pond in the ruins of a 19th century bath in San Francisco.
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