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Fireworm Setae
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Fireworm Bristles

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Even when a lobster is still a developing egg, you can see some of its adult features: an eye and legs.
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Lobster Egg

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This tentacle belongs to a blue button. While it has a central “float” with streaming tentacles like typical jellyfish, the blue button is a colony of many small hydroid animals.
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Blue Button Tentacle

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Lacy Crust Bryozoans
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan

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A live coral polyp with turquoise tissue and brown tentacles closes its mouth (the slit at the center of the radiating ribs) tight.
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Closed-Mouth Coral

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The loco (Concholepas concholepas, often called the Chilean abalone, although it isn’t actually an abalone) is found along the entire coast of Chile.
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The Loco of Chile

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Two red flame scallops with white tentacles attached to a sandy substrate.
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Flame Scallop

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Shell of an orange and white cone snail species.
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A New Cone Snail - Attenuiconus marileeae

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Blue Dragon nudibranchs are very common to the southeast coast of Australia and have a few color variations. Juveniles are white with blue rhinophores, and adults vary from dark purple to lavender to golden brown.
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Serpent Pteraeolidia

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Orangutan crabs are covered in thin reddish hairs, and are frequently found living in bubble coral.
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Orangutan Crabs from Komodo Island

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In 2005, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) observed a deep-sea squid species (Gonatus onyx) that keeps close watch over her eggs.
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Squid Watching Over Eggs

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A deep-sea octopus protecting her eggs
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Vigilant Octomom

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