For marine organisms, every day can seem like a struggle. Someone's always trying to eat you, push you off of your prime piece of real estate, or steal all the food before you get any. But cunning self-defense tactics give every community player a fighting chance.

Depictions of the sea in art and advertising. Visions of wonder and enchantment in aesthetic representations of a mysterious world and its effects on human thought and feeling.

The plays that brought the sea into the homes of the world.

Discover what mysteries of Liberty Bay our interns have been studying, and find out what they've learned.

Whether you find it squirm-inducing or inspiring, the extreme intimacy of symbiosis (which to biologists includes parasitism as well as mutualism) is pretty darn incredible. Come learn about cool symbioses, some right here in our own Puget Sound.