The team are progressing well studying material from Day’s 1967 monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa as part of a @royalsociety International Exchanges Grant. Already several new taxa have been discovered and the identity of several others untangled #WormWednesday
Whale dies and sinks to abyssal depths (= whale fall) provides sustenance for diverse community including #deepsea#Annelida#worm, 9 #NewSpecies recently discovered at whale fall off Byron Bay Georgieva et al. 2023 @AustmusResearch#WormWednesday https://t.co/vBD010uPKY
Gunton Zhang Kupriyanova & Hutchings @AustmusResearch describe a #NewSpecies of #Annelida#worm genus Melinna from 4197 m depth off SE Aust, beam trawl from RV Investigator + key diagnostics of genus https://t.co/nhAkAaN5cB
Unusually good reporting effort by @maggeorgieva etc with 1 article having molecular data & 9 new #DeepSea species for 5 diverse #Annelida families, all from 1 small serendipitously picked-up whale skull. #WormWednesday https://t.co/ayyaVlYDBB
Out now for #WormWednesday! This Special Issue of the Records of @austmus, edited by Dr Elena Kupriyanova & Dr Laetitia Gunton, includes 6 papers & describes 33 new species of annelids, collected during the 2017 @CSIRO RV Investigator Sampling the abyss voyage @museumsvictoria👇
'Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life' is a brand new textbook from OUP, and it is available now! Click through to our website to find out more, to read an extract, and to order your copy. https://t.co/0nZPYPSVt9
Check out the article by @abcnews highlighting the @CSIRO RV Investigator voyage 🛥 to Christmas & Cocos Islands to map undersea mountain ranges & deep-sea biodiversity! 🌊
@museumsvictoria will be collecting specimens with data feeding into the ALA.
https://t.co/B0YbksmyTb
Today is #InternationalPolychaeteDay!
Today, our wonderful Marine Invertebrates team and polychaete researchers around the world celebrate the birthday of Kristian Fauchald. Kristian was a hugely influential Worm Curator @NMNH, and friend to many here @austmus. 📸Natalia Mroz
New paper out! We test the physiological response of Cassiopea to winter temperatures in temperate Lake Macquarie, NSW♨️
Check out the manuscript 👉🏼 https://t.co/c5iPERkwtW
@Sydney_Uni@AustmusResearch@SydneyMarine
The #metaverse is coming!
@sophluidynamics & @mkasumovic can finally live out their dreams of becoming... a bunch of... squirrels... trying to steal acorns from.. uh.... a tree!
Yeah! The metaverse is amazing!
Don't miss it this Friday 12pm AEST https://t.co/vd4kThlWKD
@austmus