2024 Woods Hole Science Aquarium in Photos
We have some of the most amazing marine and estuarine animals on exhibit at our Woods Hole Science Aquarium. Let’s meet a few!
Our Woods Hole Science Aquarium was established in 1875, making it the country's oldest public aquarium. On average, visitors can see about 90 species of marine and estuarine animals found in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. waters. Come visit us and tour our aquarium gallery area, see how our residents are cared for, talk with aquarium staff, enjoy our touch tanks, meet Bubba our harbor seal, and more! Until then, here’s a few of our aquarium residents.
X-ray of Stumpy, our diamondback terrapin. It's estimated that Stumpy was hatched in 2006. We’ve had him at our aquarium...
X-ray of a common spider crab. These crabs are a bit gangly with their triangular body and comically long legs. They’re ...
X-ray of a foureye butterflyfish. This fish can be found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean. It’s named for the spot...
X-ray of a spotfin butterflyfish. This oval-shaped fish has a small mouth and its body is white with bright yellow fins....
X-ray of a Jonah crab. Jonah crabs and rock crabs look similar. One way to distinguish them is by looking at the leading...
X-ray of a windowpane flounder. This flounder has a rounded body shape—they’re nearly as wide as they are long. Smaller ...
X-ray of a knobbed whelk. Knobbed whelks are a marine snail that grow by producing turns and whorls in its shell around ...
X-ray of a purple sea urchin. They’re spiny and ovoid-shaped and have a complex mouth made up of five tooth-like calcium...
X-ray of a northern puffer. This club-shaped fish has the ability to puff up into a ball in self-defense. They do this b...
X-ray of a sea star. Sea stars are invertebrates related to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and sand dollars. They can regene...
X-ray of a sergeant major. These reef fish are small, flat, and oval-shaped. They have five distinct black bars on its s...
X-ray of a spadefish. These fish have deep, laterally compressed bodies, small mouths, blunt heads and pointed dorsal an...
The common spider crab belongs to a group known as "decorator crabs." Their main defense against predators is to decorat...
Ocean pout are a bottom-dwelling fish species with an eel-like body found in the western Atlantic from Labrador, Canada ...
Don’t mind these three—sea raven, wolffish, and longhorn sculpin—they’re just posing for their new album cover. It drops...
Bubba, our harbor seal, enjoys the sprinkler hose. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Heather Soulen
Bubba, our harbor seal. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Heather Soulen
Cape Cod was tickled pink in July when a second flamingo was spotted on the Cape. However, there’s now a third possible ...
If I fits, I sits. Our redlip blenny sure seems to be channeling its inner cat! Can you guess how this fish got its name...
Hope your summer vibe is as chill as Bubba’s! Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Sarah Shea
Just some oyster toadfish hanging out, watching the world go by. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Sarah Shea
All hail our reigning queen triggerfish, Queenie! Queen triggerfish can be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In...
Did you know there are four different ways that sharks reproduce: Viviparity, oviparity, ovoviviparity, and asexually. T...
Meet Wolfie, an Atlantic wolffish at our aquarium. Wolffish are generally found in the deep rocky areas of the North Atl...
This is Stumpy, our diamondback terrapin. Sometimes Stumpy doesn't do Mondays. He barely made it to his sleeping rock. W...
Happy Birthday to our big man Bubba! Our resident harbor seal turned 24 in May! He had a great day filled with fish trea...
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