Despite their name, black bears actually vary in color more than any other species native to North America. Some of the many colorful black bear variants include the brownish cinnamon bear, the white spirit bear, and the bluish glacier bear.
Rattails (aka grenadiers) are common and curious deep-sea denizens that will investigate any disturbance on or around the seafloor—which means they sometimes photobomb our colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.