Oceans

Hesionids are lively compact small worms, often richly coloured and with a good set of eyes (2 pairs, with lenses).

An interactive guide to the sea stars, brittle stars, feather stars, sea eggs, and sea cucumbers (echinoderms) of New Zealand.

A joint 10-year NIWA and Department of Conservation project to find out more about the great white sharks that inhabit New Zealand waters is coming to an end.

This week's Critter of the Week (number 130) is the feather star Argyrometra mortenseni.

This week we bring you a species that puts the ‘brittle’ into brittle star: the beautiful and fragile Ophioleuce brevispinum.

The Mediterranean fanworm Sabella spallanzanii is a spectacularly large worm with a characteristic circular whirl of filaments.

We hope this Week’s Critter of the Week will brighten your day, introducing the genus of sea stars called Zoroaster.

With the Kermadec Trench Expedition coming to a close , we thought we would stay on the theme of trenches for a little longer and present to you Scopelocheirus schellenbergi.

Never complain about a bad hair day again! This week’s crab arguably gives more the impression of disbelief than grump.

This week we introduce a beautiful treasure of the deep, Thalassocyon tui a sea snail generally found in northern New Zealand waters.

This week, let us celebrate the closely related genus Corallium in honour of our visiting scientist Tzu Hsuan Tu from the National Taiwan University in Taipei.

This video has been produced to highlight ocean acidification as a potential issue affecting the NZ shellfish aquaculture industry