For this #spinysaturday, here's a gorgeous urchin from ~4,200 m deep in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean! #NHMDeepSea #DeepGreenCCZ with @helena_wiklund Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras Regan Drennan

For today’s #AbyssalAnimalOfTheDay - a lovely chiton from 4,200 meter deep in the CCZ, Pacific Ocean! @helena_wiklund Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras

Happy #SpongeThursday! From approx. 4,200 m deep in the CCZ, Pacific Ocean, here’s an amazing carnivorous sponge (left), as well as one of the most common sponge species we encounter, Plenaster craigi (right). @helena_wiklund Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras Muriel Rabone