Monterey Bay Aquarium

Drift the day away with the Jelly Cam

Leopardonnez-moi, says the leopard shark

Grow with the flow on the Kelp Forest Cam!

Wave hello to our new Monterey Bay Cam! The same tasty ocean views with an extra side of *crisp*!

Tag someone to manifest them sharing the Open Sea with you

Behold the beauty below the buoyant bulbysoars of a bountiful Monterey Bay bull kelp forest.

Watching the Penguin Cam is a pengwinning Penguin Awareness Day strategy!

Somebody kelp! We started watching the Kelp Forest Cam and we can’t look a-sway!

Happy World Otter Day! Swim, snack, snuggle and snooze your way through this montage of wild otters sea-lebrating in the bay!

Happy Swirled, sorry, WORLD Otter Day! These lovely ladies are at the heart of the recovery of these critical critters along the coast, raising rescued sea otter pups for release to the wild. Our Sea Otter Program is hard at work to make sure we can shellebrate World Otter Day every day!

World Otter Day is paws for celebration on the Sea Otter Cam

Lapping up these ocean views

Moon Jelly Cam here to help pull you out of your crater

Join MBARI's Astrid Leitner to talk about deep-sea fishes, benthic topography and the myriad habitats animals seek out in the deep sea. OH! And eels! So many eels! Eels all around!

Just another manic Monbay on the Monterey Bay Cam

WE NEED YOUR HELPCongress is negotiating the next round of COVID-19 emergency funding. You can help by urging your representatives to include funding for zoos and aquariums. While we remain closed, our work for ocean conservation, marine science education and the care for our animals continues. Please make your voice heard to help aquariums survive these difficult times:

Happy Fri-bay everyone! It’s time to enjoy the Monterey Bay Cam!

Hello from the girls

Eat. Bray. Love. Penguin Cam!

Waving hello from the Monterey Bay Cam!

Testing, testing, is this thing on?! The inner skeleton of a sea urchin is known as a "test." It's made of fused calcium carbonate plates, and is covered in ball sockets that the spines swivel around on. Also, if you shine a light into the test, rows of little holes reveal where the urchin's tube feet emerge from! You may have noticed the five pairs of latitudinal tube feet rows along the urchin globethe quintessential five-sided radial symmetry of echinoderms revealed! You can think of a sea urchin as a sea star folded back on itself, fusing its arms into a test subject. Special thanks to Aquarist Mike we sent s-urchin for photos of the sea urchin tests from our Learning Labs! We're getting some jack-o-lantern ideas...

One more MeditOcean to end the week? Shore thing

Morays look like they’re waiting for you to acknowledge how good their joke was. My friends say I’m a loving eel. I guess that’s why they call me a-moray! Lol get it?! Because I’m-

Sway the day away with the Kelp Forest Cam

We all get by with a little kelp from our frondsso here’s a kelp forest MeditOcean from us to you

Live dive to feed the sharks and fishes in the Kelp Forest!

Jaw-t it down: Remember to watch the Shark Cam today!

One of the most extreme places on Earth, deep-sea hydrothermal vents are like underwater volcanoes reaching scalding temperatures of over 700 Fahrenheit. As we prepare for our 2022 exhibit, "Into the Deep: Exploring Our Undiscovered Ocean," we asked Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) deep-sea biologist Shannon Johnson to tell us about some of the amazing deep-sea creatures able to live in these unique environments.

Join a panel of Seafood Watch fisheries scientists to discuss the future of seafood, sustainability and aquaculture. Featuring Fini Lovita, Birgitte Poulsen, Wendy Norden and Furqan Asif.

Aim for the moon jellies and you’ll land among the sea starsMoon Jelly Cam time!

Join the Monterey Bay Aquarium and California State Parks for a LIVE broadcast from above and below the giant kelp forest and learn about this incredible ecosystem hidden beneath the surface. State Parks Interpreter Daniel Willeford joined us from Point Lobos State Marine Reserve and chatted all things kelp forest with Diver Pat from *inside* the Aquarium's Kelp Forest exhibit. It was an awesome time learning about our underwater national parks and the diverse, abundant life thriving just offshore.

Happy 36th Anniversary, Aquarium family! While we’re still closed and our celebration may look a little different this year, your steadfast support has buoyed our spirits and continues to make our mission of ocean conservation possible. We can’t wait to welcome you back when we can safely reopen. Onward!

Kelp yourself to some searenity on the Kelp Forest Cam

Waves crash into mist Cold ocean and warm light mix Beauty’s a shore thing