Slate Pencil Urchin

Photo by  Nick Hobgood

We all knew it was coming.  Time for summer to end and school to begin.  In honor of the school days starting up, our creature of the week is one that you would think might get an A in preparedness for taking notes.  This week our creature is the Slate Pencil Urchin!

Whale Shark

Picture courtesy of Zac Wolfe

Happy Shark Week, Explorers!  To celebrate, this week's Creature of the Week will be a shark!  But which one should we feature?  There are after all over 350 species of sharks in existence today.  Well since this is one big week of jaw-some excitement, let's just choose the biggest one of them all!  And that is the Whale Shark.

Chinook Salmon

Photo courtesy of Zureks

In honor of the last week of the summer Olympics, this weeks Creature of the Week features another fascinating aquatic athlete: the Chinook Salmon.  These fish are the kings and queens of obstacle courses and swimming against the current.

Indo-Pacific Sailfish

Photo courtesy of Avi Klapfer/ Rotman/ naturepl.com

The Olympic Games are in full swing!  So this week we are featuring a true Olympian.  The gold medal for the fastest fish in the world goes to... the Indo-Pacific Sailfish!