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Each of these gastropods are from the deep sea in the North Atlantic near 1500m. Each is is a few mm in height.

View More Friday (-1) Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) X-Ray Shells

Charles Messing graciously shared these pictures with DSN of crawling crinoids. You can see the full movie here. Cenocrinus asterius, a larger species, in the…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/04/07)

This crystal was recovered from the preserved tissue of a bamboo coral collected from Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in the 1850’s. Bamboo corals are deep-sea gorgonians…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (4/27/07)

Aplacophora is a class of mollusks comprised of about 320 species. They were considered echinoderms until around 1987 when they were moved to Mollusca.  Species…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (04/13/07)

Scanning electron microscope image (x 25000) of the coccosphere (Acanthoica acanthifera) collected in the North Atlantic. From the British Natural History Museum

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (04/06/07)

A “living fossil” Desmophyllum, a solitary coral aged to 3000 years.

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (03/30/07)

Both Pictures from Igenious.org.uk  James Six (1731-1793) retired early from business to devote himself to the natural sciences. He is best known for the invention…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (03/23/07)

A Scottish Sea Spider without kilt (from the Metro.co.uk) from the Rockall Trough off NW Scotland.  

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This beautiful, actively venting carbonate structure resembling a snow-covered Christmas tree is about 3 ft high. “The beehive” is perched precariously on the near-vertical side…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (03/16/07)