Blobbing their way to stardom Right: BLAKE Ambassador Hiromi Beran (a.k.a. me!) meets a blobfish. For the final creature feature, I present you with possibly the greatest of them all: the blobfish. If this species is unfamiliar to you, you are in for a treat. The...
A new species joins the ranks Talking about squids without talking about taxonomy (the study of the classification of organisms) is impossible on this ship. Our resident expert is Dr Heather Braid, a squid taxonomist and conservation geneticist. And thus I bring...
Immortal super-organisms made up of gelatinous fire clones Pyrosomes, so many pyrosomes. This was the result of several of our more southern mesopelagic trawls, when the free-floating colonial tunicates (Pyrosoma atlanticum) swamped our net. Pyrosomes are closely...
The ridiculously cute critter with a cunning camouflage method Meet Stoloteuthis maoria, one of the bobtail squids: tiny, glowing and with flapping fins like Dumbo ears. These fins are huge for its size, almost as large as the minute mantle, and the squid uses its...
Exactly as the name implies Warty seadevils are the kind of hideous and awesome creatures which come to mind when we think of the deep sea. The females have huge heads, massive mouths, sandpaper skin, are covered in tiny spines and have a bioluminescent lure. The...
