We. Are. Ready! Read today's #IcyInverts blog post by yours truly for details: icyinverts.com/shipboard-blog… #SweatTheSmallStuff #AntarticWorms

Ready for the DEEPEST dive you've ever taken? Explore the mysterious, rarely-seen world hidden beneath the waves in our new special exhibition, #UnseenOceans, opening on March 15. 🌊 fieldmuseum.io/UnseenOceans 🎨: © American Museum of Natural History

NOW OPEN: our newest special exhibition, #UnseenOceans 🌊

In #UnseenOceans: 🪼 Encounter glow-in-the-dark fish and plankton. 🪼 Pilot through the depths in an interactive submersible game. 🪼 Meet real-life seahorses, eels, and jellies up close. Plan your visit. 🌊 fieldmuseum.io/UnseenOceans

This seagull definitely heard we’re looking for sea stars this month… All iNaturalist observations of CA sea stars count towards the 2024 Solstice Sea Star Search, but maybe avoid replicating this bird’s invasive approach. More at bit.ly/seastar24 © Ellyne Geurts

In January, MCZ collections hosted students from the Harvard Extension School Museum Collections Care course. Students worked with many MCZ collections on a variety of projects.

Five new species of squat lobsters have been described by Paula Rodríguez Flores, former Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow. Munidopsis giribeti is named to honor MCZ director and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor Gonzalo Giribet's inspirational passion and dedication to invertebrates. bit.ly/4hSPpSP

Get to know Mandë Holford Mandë Holford, incoming Curator of Malacology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor, and her research on venomous sea creatures. Harvard builds a new lab for venomous sea creatures bostonglobe.com/2025/02/24/met… via The Boston Globe

Understanding a new phylum: the Micrognathozoa were discovered only 25 years ago - NHM's Christopher Laumer with colleagues University of Copenhagen Museum of Comparative Zoology Universitat de Barcelona explore biology, evolution and distribution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Celebrating 75 years of the U.S. National Science Foundation! 🎉 At UC San Diego, their funding drives bold research in health, AI, climate & more. #BehindEveryBreakthough #UCSD #UCSanDiego #SaveResearch

🪸 An innovative approach to #CoralReefRestoration: Gel! A new substance designed by Scripps Oceanography & UCSD Engineering scientists improved coral larvae settlement by up to 20X! Learn more about SNAP-X & how it's helping corals thrive. ⬇️ 🌊 Coral Reef Engineering Lab scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-gel-c…

🌊 If you frequent #SanDiego tidepools, you've probably spotted these delightful locals. Meet the #SeaHare! Charlotte Seid, manager of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps Oceanography, shares more about these cool creatures for The San Diego Union-Tribune. ⬇️ sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/05/14/spe…

As of 2025, there are over 8 million estimated species on Earth, over 2 million species described so far, and over 500,000 species documented on iNaturalist.

Atlantic Bobtails (Sepiola atlantica), like many squids in the same family, have a specialized light organ that helps them camouflage & evade predators as they hunt at night. 📷 unorthodox_sketch on iNaturalist 📍 United Kingdom 🔗: inaturalist.org/observations/2… #ObservationOfTheDay

It's #WormWednesday 😌🪱 Here's a very good flatworm, possibly in the Genus Paraplanocera. 📷 adrian2370 on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: inaturalist.org/observations/2… #ObservationOfTheDay

#FridayFunFact Sea urchins have no eyes, bones, heart, or brain — yet they can still sense light! Their whole body acts like one big eye as they use their tube feet & spines to detect changes in light & navigate their surroundings.👁️ Heliocidaris australiae, found off Australia.

You're currently looking at Phylliroe bucephala — a parasitic sea slug that lives its life in the open ocean — and the colorful stuff is its guts (and their contents). 📷 alaineden on iNaturalist 📍 Guadeloupe 🔗: inaturalist.org/observations/2… #ObservationOfTheDay

We're hiring! iNaturalist is searching for a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer team to lead the continued development of our cross-platform applications. Learn more: inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

Some of the best inventors “study nature, not books.” 🎨 by Natalie Renier, 🖋️ by Hannah Piecuch/WHOI Creative #OceanMatters #BlueEconomy #WorldOceanDay #DesignByNature #OceanInspiration #OceanInnovation

Naomi Rodriguez Natural History Museum of L.A. County uses integrative taxonomy to better ID marine isopods—tiny but vital players in marine ecosystems—tackling the challenge of consistent species IDs for this group. She also made a zine to bring isopods to life! peracarida.org/about/research #WednesdayWisdom