{"id":157,"date":"2010-02-12T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/quake-cruise\/?p=157"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:25:05","slug":"tiny-creatures-from-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/quake-cruise\/2010\/02\/12\/tiny-creatures-from-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"(Tiny) Creatures from the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OBS’s spent a year on the seafloor, and during that time became home to or were visited by some small sea creatures. With this post is a collection of photos of some of these small animals that came up with the OBS’s. Most of them have very little pigment – can you guess why?<\/p>\n

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This lobster was in the dredge mud from OBS10. It is about 2 inches long. Its exoskeleton has sharp edges.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We found a lot of these little lobsters. This one is about half an inch long.<\/p><\/div>\n

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many of these plant-like polyps hung off the edges of the OBS and especially on the flag mast. They aren't much to look lik out of water.<\/p><\/div>\n

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in salt water the polyps look like little jellyfish with long tentacles. Some of them had what appeared to be pieces of krill in their tentacles. This is a very zoomed in photo - the polyp is about 2 millimeters long.<\/p><\/div>\n

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one of the first OBS's that we recovered had a large mass of fish eggs. You can see the little black eyes of the fish embroyos through the eggs. This reminded me of the beginning of the movie Finding Nemo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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almost every OBS had one or two brittle stars on it. They hang on tight.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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