The aquarium looking from the Tennessee River

You begin your River Journey on the fourth floor with the Seahorse Exhibit. If you always thought seahorses were all alike think again. Both of these pictures are of seahorses.

Watch playful otters splash their way in a forest cove.

Enter the steamy backwaters of the Mississippi Delta and observe the interaction of alligators, turtles, wading birds and other wildlife that make up the complex web of life in the steamy swamplands.

Glimpse the variety of life that inhabits the rivers of the world. You can actually touch a prehistoric sturgeon or watch giant catfish skim along a river bottom. When you are saturated in freshwater wonders, move on, as do the rivers of the world, to the Ocean Journey

A pair of horseshoe crabs appear so close you can almost touch them

It's hard to choose which you will like better. The original aquarium is larger but the new addition is so packed with color and adventure.

From the tiny flying jewels in the butterfly garden that actually alight on your body to the huge sharks that you can actually touch, this is an adventure into another dimension.

View the immense beauty of a coral reef teeming with thousands of colorful fish, barracuda and shark to tiny minnows as only a diver could. Marvel at the Boneless Beauties Gallery where exotic sea life ranging from tiny luminous jellyfish to huge Pacific Octopus awaits you.