Here are the latest deep sea organisms to visit Pearson College… this time on Wednesday 21 January and Thursday 22 January 2015.
This year the specimens included:
Prince Axel’s wonderfish
A tube-eye or thread-tail fish
Crown jellyfish
Barreleye fish
Chubby flashlight fish
Deep sea glass squid
Umbrella mouth gulper
A stoplight loosejaw fish
A dragonfish
A gulper eel
Venus’s flower basket sponge
and a basket star.
Another motley crew of deep sea creatures assembled in the floating lab this week…
This year’s specimens included:
An anglerfish
Barreleye fish 
Fanfin anglerfish
Firefly squid
Giant grenadier
Giant isopod
Hatchetfish
Pram bug amphipod
Prince Axel’s Wonderfish
Stoplight loosejaw fish
Tube eye fish
And others…
The creatures that live in the deep sea are unusual, as are the students that study Marine Science at Pearson College. Today and on Monday second year marine scientists each dressed up as a fish or an invertebrate that lives in the deep sea. This is the result:
Pearson College Marine Science 