I love a competition that highlights a less charismatic species. I'm a velvet worm girl myself 🌿

Close-up with a tiny white and black nudibranch. The nudibranch is front-on, both rhinophores in view (its bunny ears). The nudibranch is exploring a rocky shelf covered in light brown algae.

Smol nudibranch friend almost looks... pleased with itself? And so it should, very beautiful, would admire again. 🧪🦑🐙#MarineLife #Invertebrates

I had so much fun setting this up and special thanks to the local resident who lent me her secateurs to cut rope when I forgot mine 😂🫣

If you want to hear more about this experiment in detail pop over to @riskybyssus on Instagram for a full debreif 🦑🐙🧪

Omg 2 is extra special!

I'm not going to lie, I too will be in the velvet worm camp simply because it is one of my life goals to see them in the wild

Any ideas whose eggs these are? Found at Balmain east, Sydney, AU

#invertID #Marinelife #invertfest #whelk 🐙🦑🧪

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Science is often not as glam as it looks 😂

I feel pretty lucky to work on some of the most picturesque cityscapes around and have some great company to boot!!!

Not pictured: the smell and photographs of many dissected shellfish 🧪🐙🦑 #marinelife #womeninSTEM #phdlife

The prettiest flatworm I ever did see

More or less alarming than saying "the porcupine is not ready" 😂

Here I am bluesky, another Marine biology Ph.D. student out here loving underrated creatures and trying to understand them better 🧪🐙🦑 #MarineLife