Don’t get me wrong, Giant Squid are quite impressive and Vampire Squid are certainly not without their charm, but I would have to posit that the Pygmy Squids (Idiosepius spp.) are [...]
In 2014, an enigmatic deepsea creature was made known to the world, the aptly named Dendrogramma enigmatica. It’s peculiar morphology made it a puzzle for researchers to identify, even at the broadest scale. Some suggested it might be flatworm with an exceptionally enlarged proboscis, others [...]
Few marine organisms are quite so obscure as the siphonophore. Next time you’re at a dinner party, try this little experiment: ask ten people to draw one and see what they come up with. Unless there happens to be an experienced blackwater diver or marine biologist in the crowd, you’ll like be [...]
Walking Corals (Heteropsammia & Heterocyathus) are well-known for the bizarre symbiotic relationship they share with sipunculan worms—the coral makes a secure home for the worm and the worm helps out by dragging the coral around, righting its scleractinian host if it happens to get flipped [...]
The diversity of marine life never ceases to surprise, so when a researcher contacted me recently asking if he could use some of my images of crabs in the Red Sea as part of his research, I said ‘yes’ but didn’t give it much further thought. Several weeks ago, I received a copy of the [...]
The Chambered Nautilus is one of the ocean’s most iconic living fossils, belonging to a lineage which has remained virtually unchanged since the Cretaceous. Still, no animal can truly remain the same over such a vast expanse of time; the process of speciation must always advance, even if [...]
Travelling worldwide gives me the opportunity to photograph and enjoy a huge amount of reef life, from sharks to nudibranchs. The one constant though, is that many of my fellow divers don’t think there’s anything worth seeing in UK waters. They couldn’t be more [...]
Despite looking like corals, housing photosynthetic zooxanthellae, and creating a calcareous skeleton like ‘true’ corals, the Fire Corals, Milleporidae are actually hydrozoans. The pictures I have for you here, show Millepora dichotoma, the Net Fire Coral, a common [...]