Coasts

This hot pink gem is Epimeria larsi Lörz, 2009 described by our very own amphipod expert Anne-Nina Lörz and named after her husband Lars!

If you are a fan of crinoids (and who isn’t) you might enjoy this short documentary (27mins), Living Fossils, which features our friend Charles Messing from Nova Southeastern University.

Astrotoma agassizii is commonly found in the Ross Sea at the Balleny Islands, Victoria Land and Terra Nova Bay.

Read about the science that will be undertaken during the voyage.

Read details about the aims of the voyage and find information about the scientists and crew on board.

This week’s critter is a funky, multi-coloured seastar, Asterodiscides truncatus, commonly known as the firebrick seastar.

Nothing says summer holiday quite like the rhythmical sigh of waves breaking gently on a sundrenched shore.

New Zealand marine molluscs are incredibly diverse, with nearly 3,600 species described or known undescribed (Gordon, 2009).

When we think about marine animals, we usually think about organisms that are relatively large, such as whales, sharks, fish, squid, or sea stars.

The Ram’s Horn squid (Spirula spirula) is a mesopelagic species, meaning that it lives in the mid-water column. It typically lives in dark depths of 500-1000 m in the day and migrates up to the shallows of 300 m at night.

We would probably be grumpy too if we didn’t have any eyes, however, in the deep sea, where there is very little light many organisms have lost the ability to see altogether.