Staff at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores turned off a 30-foot waterfall and collected all the coins visitors had thrown into the water to make wishes. After cleaning the money, they'll put it toward the aquarium's expenses. Liz Baird/Courtesy of North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores hide caption
A baby weedy seadragon swims at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, Calif. Two of the rare fish hatched there recently, making the aquarium one of the few in the world to successfully breed them. Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography via AP hide caption
A gentoo Penguin with a newborn chick. Sphen and Magic, a male penguin couple, are now dads to their newborn foster chick. Barcroft Media via Getty Images hide caption
Gentoo penguins relax in the cool temperatures at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in 2016. Sphen and Magic, the newest penguin couple in the aquarium, are fostering an egg together. James D. Morgan/Getty Images hide caption
The elderly lungfish had been in Chicago since the 1933 World's Fair. Brenna Hernandez/Shedd Aquarium hide caption
Hans Walters and his wife, Martha Hiatt, rock out with a sea lion named Bruiser. Alletta Cooper for StoryCorps hide caption
A great white shark breaches the surface in July 2010 as it attacks a decoy seal off the coast of South Africa. Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
