It’s home to the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium, where you can come face-to-face with otherwise elusive marine life such as cute sea otters, giant ocean sunfish, and hypnotic jellies.

For still life master Guido Mocafico, it’s been a years-long quest: to find and photograph a menagerie of century-old glass sea creatures, scattered among institutions and museums worldwide.

Magnificent Pictures of Life Under the Sea. We've combed through pictures of underwater worlds entered to our Nature Photographer of the Year contest to bring you a selection of gems.

The world of life they saw, wrote Beebe in a 1931 National Geographic story, was “almost as unknown as that of Mars or Venus.”Modern oceanography, he added, knew as much about the deep sea as ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - National Geographic: Life on Thin Ice is on Friday, May 9th at 7:30 pm. On the website, its described as, “Journey to the Arctic with photographer and National Geographic ...