Transparent lobed object with a golden edging. Pear-shaped reddish brown structure in the lower third at the midline.

Looking back at some old photos, and this is one of my all-time best. It's a 44-day-old larva of the bat star Patiria miniata. From top to bottom it is ~1mm long.
How I did it: canaturalist.com/another-1000...
#throughthemicroscope
#larvae
#marineinvertebrate
#seastar
#focusmerge

About a dozen moon jellies swimming in a tank of dark blue water

Moon jellies doing what moon jellies do. Defiance Point, Tacoma. #BlueSkyMonday #marinelife #marineinvertebrate #jellyfish

the ochre starfish!

Find this pattern in the minouette Spoonflower (see the link above) and the original prints in the minouette Etsy shops (linked here and above in thread).

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pattern #seastar #ochreStarfish #linedChiton #chiton #marineInvertebrate

are there any #bryozoan or #marineinvertebrate scholars out there with a general info essay to share?! i not sure I even know the right hashtags!

Part 3 of our #podcast series with Dr. Jack Koch is live!

We explore AGGRC’s mission to help #researchers & #conservationists build germplasm repositories for aquatic species — powered by #3Dprinting.

Listen here: cadworks3d.com/big-ideas-at...

#BigIdeasAtµScale #marineinvertebrate

Purplish-red star-shaped animal on sand, with reflection in the surface of the water

Every year I make a wall calendar from photos I've taken in the intertidal. It occurred that I'd better get started on the 2025 version! This is the photo I used for November 2024. Pisaster ochraceus, the ochre star.
#marineinvertebrate
#tidepools

[New Paper] 11 NEW SPECIES -- Including two deep-sea hot vent limpets! The #OceanSpeciesDiscoveries is a publication series by @oceanspecies.bsky.social established to speed up the description and publication of new #marineinvertebrate species.

OPEN ACCESS LINK: bdj.pensoft.net/article/128431/