Tag: Polychaete

Roger Norman Bamber (1949-2015)

I asked Tammy Horton, a noted expert on crustaceans, to write this post about the life of her colleague...

With the first taste of palolo I understood the Samoans’ love for it. Certainly it suggested a salty caviar,...

This species bring a whole new meaning to butt face. It’s Latin name even means butt face. I jest…...

Giant isopods and vampire squid are sooooo last year. I bet you’re even sleeping through the night now without...

Once upon a time in 1993, when I was imbibing my sophomore year at college in Australia –...

Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the...

Say hello to my little fried… In fact, this guy is so small you might have missed if you...

Christopher Taylor at the Catologue of Organisms (one of the handful of blogs I rush to when I see...

Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

From National Geographic’s new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near...