by Barry Brown | May 26, 2017 | Invertebrates, Reef, Science
Hi all, as most of you already know I have the worlds largest collection of live slit-shell photos from all over the Caribbean and now I have them from St. Eustatius. These little beauties were all found on the same trip and they looked different than others we had seen from other areas of the Caribbean, meaning they seemed smaller and lighter then normal. These were all collected by the Smithsonian Institution and Substation Curacao on their two week expedition to St. Eustatius and yours truly got to spend many a day with them with camera in hand. by Joe Rowlett | Jun 10, 2016 | Invertebrates
In an evolutionary sense, there are many organisms in our reef tanks that stem from very old lineages of animal life. Sponges and corals have been around for several hundred million years, and, in that time, these groups have undergone a good deal of evolutionary...