Elusive colossal squid filmed swimming in deep ocean for first time
By Peter de Kruijff

New footage filmed 600 metres below the surface of the Southern Atlantic Ocean shows rare juvenile from world's heaviest squid species.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-04-17/first-time-colossal-squid-filmed-natural-habitat/105185924

A hermit crab stack. Two grainy-hand hermits below and a little hairy hermit on top. The one on the bottom never seems to mind the weight; the shells they wear aren't compressible. VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Eelgrass

Hermit crabs are good climbers. They like high places where they can sit and watch the world go by. Here, a little one climbs the eelgrass. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Eelgrass

Hairy hermit crab, Pagurus hirsutiusculus, wearing a broken shell; the hole exposes the end of his vulnerable, soft abdomen.#VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Grainy Hand hermit crab, Pagurus granosimanus. Description in ALT. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #DailyHermit

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year.

If you’re seeking inspiration from a figure of strength who is also strangely cute then look no further than the winner of 2025: Milnesium tardigradum, a microscopic multisegmented animal that resembles a piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/guardian-invertebrate-of-the-year-2025-natural-history

For 13 years, I maintained an invertebrates aquarium, housing only small critters from local intertidal zones. 13 years! In the aftermath of Covid, I had to give it up. It's been two years now, and I miss my critters, especially the hermit crabs. So I've decided to do a Daily Hermit post here, using photos of those glorious years. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #DailyHermit

#NewSpecies!
New endemic beetle from #southafrica just came in:

Stenomastigus mpumalanganus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF87EE-FFDF-E45E-FF5C-FB10FACCC709
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5590.1.5
#Zootaxa #StenomastigusMpumalanganus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #endemic

#NewSpecies!
New shield bug from #brazil just came in:

Pelidnocoris paradisicola

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B11D823-FD07-FFC7-FC64-FE81FDFDF936
Publication: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.028
#ActaEntomologica #PelidnocorisParadisicola

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hemiptera #heteroptera #bugs #shieldbugs #stinkbugs

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #panama just surfaced:

Konatopus tridens

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EDB299BE-18F1-5796-8439-238893029352
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1234.145826
#ZooKeys #KonatopusTridens

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustaceae #amphipoda #amphipods

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #china just caught us:

Aculithus languan

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D8C1A8E3-45BB-552D-BB13-79D6866B2FC0
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e153747
#BiodiversityDataJournal #AculithusLanguan

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider

#NewSpecies!
New wasp from #china just stung us:

Diaulinopsis altunensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5804763C-67DE-58BE-A4B3-BB0D04CD16A8
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1233.140823
#ZooKeys#DiaulinopsisAltunensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hymenoptera #wasps

I found a tiny snail friend hiding in the new Hydrangea leaves.

as a #tardigrade species has been voted #InvertebrateOfTheYear , #CurrentBiology have plugged my recent feature about them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIQmslDMwJT/ #science #ecology #invertebrates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp707bZ4YI4

I keep pet woodlice and I've been testing what food they like to eat, and so far, they've gobbled up courgette and cabbage, but not really interested in celery leaves or lettuce. They eat dead leaves and whatnot but they don't show the same level of enthusiasm as they do to courgette and cabbage...Interesting...
#woodlice #invertebrates

We're looking for an Invertebrate Zoologist (palaeontologist) to come work with us at University of Reading! There's a potential to take on the curation of the Cole Museum of Zoology so museum experience would be a plus.
Please get in touch if you have any enquiries.
Application deadline is 25/04/2025.
https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=24301
#academia #jobs #academicjobs #science #zoology #Palaeontology #palaeobiology #invertebrates

I totally forgot @KateShaw released new episode today, and I just found out it's about cephalopods ... the other other cephalopods.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/04/07/episode-427-the-other-cephalopods/

listening now.

#invertebrates
#cephalopods
#molluscs

A tardigrade has just been voted #InvertebrateOfTheYear: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/guardian-invertebrate-of-the-year-2025-natural-history #science #ecology #invertebrates.

See also my latest piece on #tardigrades: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/01/tiny-survivors.html