Manta rays are pictured along the shore in Malé, capital of the Maldives on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





This picture taken on September 11, 2023 shows Moon Jellyfish (with rings) and Sting Jellyfish (yellow-orange inside) among a smack of a several thousand swimming off Seglvik, in northern Norway. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP Photo)





Grunt fish swim around the Arashi reef off the coast of Noord in Aruba on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP Photo)





Jellyfish with a juvenile imperial blackfish (Schedophilus ovalis) in Castellammare di Stabia, Naples, Italy, winter 2023. (Photo by Marco Gargiulo/Media Drum Images)





A view shows the “Poza de la Becerra”, in Cuatro Cienegas, state of Coahuila, Mexico March 20, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)





Sharks were captured on film during a dive conducted by Tahsin Ceylan, Anadolu's underwater image director and documentary producer at Elphinstone Reef in Marsa Alam region of Red Sea, Egypt on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A spotted moray eel pokes out from rocks and coral at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Sunday, September 17, 2023. Coral reefs support about a fourth of all marine species at some point in their life cycle. (Photo by L.M. Otero/AP Photo)





Sea turtle swims as Tahsin Ceylan, underwater image director and documentary producer and his diving team recorded the underwater beauty of the Red Sea, Egypt on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A three-month-old giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) swims at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on February 13, 2024. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





This handout photo taken on January 15, 2024 and released on January 31 by the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies shows a critically endangered red handfish in waters off Australia's Tasmania state. Scientists have plucked twenty-five exceedingly rare red handfish from the ocean off Tasmania, hoping to protect the struggling species from rising sea temperatures, human-caused habitat changes and ravenous urchins. (Photo by Jemina Stuart-Smith/University of Tasmania/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on November 7, 2023 shows barracuda fish amongst a school of surgeon fish in the waters of Raja Ampat Regency in east Indonesia's West Papua region. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A rare purple pelagia noctiluca jellyfish has made some new friends as fish shoal around it for protection – the jellyfish acts as a floating shield for the fish off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii in January 2024, as they are unaffected by the stings. (Photo by Casey Cooper/Solent News)





An octopus is seen during night dives to show the living things under the sea, on the coasts of Karaburun district in Izmir, Turkiye on October 05, 2023. (Photo by Mahmut Serdar Alaku/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A view shows the “Poza de la Becerra”, in Cuatro Cienegas, state of Coahuila, Mexico March 20, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)





A green sea turtle rests on the bottom of the Arashi reef off the coast of Noord in Aruba on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP Photo)