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"When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand out. I’d spent the afternoon on a small dingy off the coast of Durban, South Africa. It was muggy, and I’d been working for hours--throwing a small net out, and pulling in tiny hauls of ( Read more... )

via the Real Monstrosities Blog, video footage of a constellation of Deep-sea Brittle Stars wrestling over a dead shrimp. The way the littlest one gets mugged by the bigger ones is slightly painful to watch, but he puts up a valiant fight.

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It's practically a truism that creatures from the deep sea are inclined to the odd - it's an extreme environment, after all, and the necessary adaptations are enough to give HP Lovecraft nightmares, but this recent discovery is the strangest thing I've heard to come from the abyss yet. Thanks to the Real Monstrosities blog (worth reading), who ( Read more... )

A Massachusetts Lobsterman got a colorful surprise- 
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Hey guys! I saw this video a few days ago and shared with with a friend who thinks sea cucumbers are pretty cool things. Which they are. But apparently they are one of the most laid-back creatures of the sea if they allow this to happen to them on a regular basis...

I am sorry that I can't seem to embed the video, blame the BBC.

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Big ass fish

Not so much at work, as at the Xmas dinner arranged by my employers. One of the chilli mussels I was enjoying turned out to be unexpected crunchy, and what I had expected to be a fragment of mussel shell turned out to a crab, either a Zaops ( oyster crab ) or the closely related Pea Crab, genus Pinnotheres. Both genera used to be Pinnotheres, but ( Read more... )

Because they haven't shown up here since 2007, and because there's a paper mentioned at another blog that I wanted to bring up.


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