Squid chromatophores continue to work post-mortem! (Not an) #AbyssalAnimalOfTheDay

#SMARTEXCCZ #NHMDeepSea National Oceanography Centre Natural History Museum Natural History Museum Science Belen Arias Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras Eva Stewart Adrian Glover

Honoured to be working on the #RRSJamesCook for the next couple of months #SMARTEXCCZ #NHMDeepSea

Very excited about this beautifully round Porcellanaster #starfish , todays #AbyssalAnimaloftheDay !! This beauty was collected at 4800m deep in the Clarion Clipperton Zone #smartexccz #NHMDeepSea

.it’s oficial, lets start the adventure with Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras Adrian Glover #NHMDeepSea #SMARTEXCCZ

Like little jewels 💎 Some lovely abyssal gastropods for #MolluscMonday #NHMDeepSea #deepgreenccz #MolluskMonday

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

Some more ccz critter pre-shrunken cups ready for their dive #shrunkencupoff #sciart #NHMDeepSea

Trying to identify tiny animals even to family level can be quite hard at sea... #TaxonomyTuesday #spionidmaybe #TaxonomyAtSea #aarrrghIGiveUp #NHMDeepSea #DeepGreenCCZ with Corie Boolukos Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras Regan Drennan Thomas Dahlgren Adrian Glover

.Almost ready for my first scientific cruise 🚢 two months in the Pacific 🤓 #SMARTEXCCZ working with an amazing bunch of scientist #NHMDeepSea #womanSTEAM #latinasinsteam in this pic having fun with Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras and eleonor

One ring to rule them all - today’s #AbyssalAnimalOfTheDay is this corona of bryozoans, a golden wreath of bryos! Found on a polymetallic nodule ~4200m deep #taxonomytuesday #NHMDeepSea #deepgreenCCZ NHM_Bryozoa

Day 17 of #Crustmas : crusties everywhere! This time we spotted an amphipod on this black coral.
#NHMDeepSea #DeepSeaCCZ Thomas Dahlgren Erik Simon Lledó @Bethany38290177 Natural History Museum Science

Our #TwitterTakeover of the week is brought to you by Eva Stewart 🤗

Eva works with the #NHMDeepSea group to study the taxonomy, ecology, and evolution of invertebrates potentially threatened by deep-sea mining 🪱 🦐 🌊 ⛏

Back in the CCZ! Curious rat-tail contemplating our first benthic megafauna survey! w #NHMDeepSea Thomas Dahlgren Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras National Oceanography Centre

Or maybe you can. The stunning jewel anemone Corynactis viridis here again at Hand Deeps #UKBiodiversity #OurBluePlanet #REXArchives #NHMDeepSea

And the PM boxcore shift getting ready for boxcore #3! 🐚🦐
Belen Arias Lucas King
#SMARTEXCCZ #NHMDeepSea

Look at this beautiful Goniadidae (polychaete worm) that we got for #WormWednesday ! #AbyssalAnimalOfTheDay . This time we're sampling at 4800 m deep!
#SMARTEXCCZ #NHMDeepSea Adrian Glover Belen Arias Lucas King Eva Stewart Natural History Museum Science

Very happy #NHMDeepSea PM shift! We got to spend most of our shift in the control van of the #ROVIsis while diving at 4700 m deep!!! Heaps of holothurians spotted!
#SMARTEXCCZ National Oceanography Centre Natural History Museum Science Belen Arias Lucas King

Wildebeest of the sea? What do you think Dr Adam Rees? Hopefully he won’t chase us down a mountain 🙈 #DeepCCZ #amphipod #deepsea #NHMDeepSea

We got two Aplacophora in one boxcore sample, yay! #MolluscMonday #NHMDeepSea #DeepGreenCCZ with Corie Boolukos Regan Drennan Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras

Some beautiful Alcyonium glomeratum spotted by REX on the Callista in Plymouth this morning! #UKbiodiversity #PlymDeeps2021 #NHMDeepSea