by Admin | Sep 6, 2017 | Invertebrates, Photography
Despite looking like corals, housing photosynthetic zooxanthellae, and creating a calcareous skeleton like ‘true’ corals, the Fire Corals, Milleporidae are actually... by Barry Brown | Aug 18, 2017 | Invertebrates, Reef, Science
Good morning readers, sorry for the lack of blogs but I have more or less run out of fish and creatures from our Statia 2017 Expedition and have been working on a bunch of coral reef photos from the reefs of St. Eustatius that I will begin posting. Above is my last two deep-sea hermit crabs that were found and collected below 700 feet! For a size reference the top crab is around two inches wide while the bottom hermit is much smaller and both have the glowing blue-eyes which blow me away!! The larger crab had small little anemones all over his shell which are almost impossible to see from these tiny web sized photos. The shell he or she was in looked like it was covered in sand and the anemones were just living under it or stuck to it, you can’t even see the original shell anymore, he may have been hauling that around for awhile by Admin | Aug 2, 2017 | Invertebrates, Photography
Over the years I’ve written a few posts about how the cold and often stormy seas of my native land can be every bit as rich as far flung exotic locations. In my opinion, the cold UK seas host countless species of animals that rival the beauty of their tropical... by Joe Rowlett | Jul 28, 2017 | Invertebrates, Science
An entirely novel relationship has just been discovered between a soft coral and one of the world’s most obscure invertebrates, the humble Goblet Worm. These little-known creatures belong to their own phylum—Entoprocta—of which there are only around two-hundred known... by Joe Rowlett | Jul 17, 2017 | Invertebrates, Science
NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer is off probing the depths around Johnston Atoll in the Central Pacific, and, if you happened to be watching their live feed last Friday, you would have witnessed one of the most remarkable discoveries in recent memory—the apparent first ever... by Barry Brown | Jul 16, 2017 | Invertebrates, Reef, Science
Good morning folks, sorry for the lack of postings lately I am once again working on more projects than I care to take on giving me zero time to jump on the computer. I am trying to get all my St. Eustatius photos like this giant hermit crab I posted today ready for key-wording and sent off to be copy-righted at the US copyright office, a process that takes forever.. At some point the Smithsonian will be needing these photos for talks and publications so me having them done ahead of time will be a big bonus.
