Feb 17, 2014
There are few things I could watch for hours, but bioluminescent plankton is absolutely one of them. Next time you hear of strong red tide, take a midnight walk out on the beach.
Photographs by Will Ho in the Maldives
seen from Vietnam
seen from Netherlands
seen from Bulgaria
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Netherlands
seen from Czechia
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
There are few things I could watch for hours, but bioluminescent plankton is absolutely one of them. Next time you hear of strong red tide, take a midnight walk out on the beach.
Photographs by Will Ho in the Maldives
Admiring creatures of the deep in the northeastern Caribbean.
(clockwise from top left: siphonophore, copepod - the fastest animal in the world for its size, and two larval fish)
I need the sea because it teaches me
Pablo Neruda
We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
Oh natural history museums: the wonder + delight of exotic creatures (in formaldehyde - mmm) that you might see one day if you explore far and long enough...
Ulysses Aldrovandi's marine mammal illustrations from exactly 400 years ago (1613). Some have human emotions, feet!, and imaginative bodies, while characteristics like teeth, baleen and bones are described accurately. Just makes me wonder what we will think of "modern science" in another 400 years...
Mind-blowing-pretty squid skin
Chromatophores? So stunning...